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  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A woman sits by a barrel table in a smoke den lighting a pipe, others stand by the fire. Lithograph by J. Selb, mid-19th century, after A. Richter after D. Teniers.
  • Two Dutch topers clasping a beer jug and smoking. Mezzotint after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Matlock Bath, Derbyshire: the Old Bath Hotel. Aquatint by H. Moore after himself, 1830.
  • Policemen apprehend a pickpocket taking a license from a publican; representing the value to the government of publicans' licenses. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1890, after himself.
  • George Tavern & Eating House, Great Eastcheap : the annual dinner of the medical officers of the army, at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's Street, on Saturday the 12th May 1827 : P. McGregor, esq. serjeant-surgeon to the King, in the chair... / George Bell.
  • An opium den in London's East End with a reclining smoker being watched by a group of men. Wood engraving by A. Doms, 1872, after G. Doré.
  • A Dutch country tavern with a drinker being given encouragement, a group by the fire and a serving man chalking up orders. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1836, after D. Teniers.
  • A crowd outside a country tavern with market stalls and a church in the background. Etching by Deuchar (?), mid 18th century, after A. van Ostade (?).
  • Two men play cards at a table as others watch and smoke by the fire. Engraving by J. Michel, c. 1778, after J. Boydell after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Five men drinking and smoking round a table in a large open room. Mezzotint after a painting by A. van Ostade, 1665.
  • Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.
  • A man sits at a table with playing cards and drink in hand, his wife threatens him as his playing partner makes his departure. Engraving by F. Basan after Dumesnil, junior.
  • Simpson's celebrated 2/- fish dinner : absolutely the best : menu: turbot, stewed eels, fried sole, smelts, whitebait, haunch of mutton, vegetables, cheese & bread : dinner in London : Three Tuns, Billingsgate Market, E.C. / proprietor Charles Best.
  • Four Flemish men smoke and drink in a dingy smoke den, a man leans on the wall behind. Engraving by L. Lempereur, late 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Three men indoors round an inn table with drink, tobacco pipes and cards. Engraving by F. Basan after A. van Ostade.
  • A busy gin palace bar with customers buying drinks. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
  • The interior of a tavern with men smoking and drinking round the fireplace. Etching by J. Taylor, c. 1800, after A. van Ostade.
  • Women eject a drunk and publican from a bar in a crusade against drunkenness. Wood-engraving by A. Joliet, c. 1875, after Castelli.
  • A meeting place where men talk about safe sex; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Lithograph by D. Pusch and I. Taubhorn.
  • An innkeeper adds water to his wine as his customer, a baker, kisses the landlady. Engraving by J. Lagniet, ca. 1663.
  • A Dutch tavern interior with three men smoking and drinking in the foreground. Engraving by J. Beauvarlet, 1755, after A. van Ostade.
  • Drinkers revelling outside a country tavern as a young man is led away by his mother (?). Etching by J. Wachsmuth, mid 18th century, after D. Teniers.
  • A drunken man begs in the street with his family, all ruined through his drinking habit. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • Four boors round a barrel table smoking and drinking. Engraving by J. Michel, c. 1779, after G. Farrington after A. van Ostade.
  • Two men sit drinking and smoking at a tavern table. Engraving by J. Williams, c. 1792, after a painting attributed to A. Brouwer.
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • A drunken man surrounded by women in a dingy alehouse. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • A doctor examining a man's tongue in a country tavern. Etching by H. Smith, 1858.
  • Six men and a woman drink and smoke round a table outside a country tavern, behind them children watch a woman pump water. Etching by J. Browne and engraving by W. Woollett, 1767, after C. Dusart.