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  • A man on a donkey and three drinkers toasting Bacchus: drinking song. Engraving and etching, 17--, after A.Corelli.
  • The melancholy temperament: an anxious woman clasps her hands as an agitated man lies on the ground. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
  • A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.
  • Three men round a barrel drinking, smoking and conversing. Engraving by F. Basan, mid 18th century, after I. van Ostade.
  • People reaching for alcoholic drink falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree; skeletons litter the ground. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
  • The drunken Hercules. Engraving by A. Campanella after A. von Maron, 1781.
  • A bacchanalian scene with Pan sleeping and many drinking vessels left on a table. Etching by F. van den Wyngaerde after P. Rubens, mid 17th century.
  • A drunken woman standing in the street in St Giles's, London. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • The "American Pledge" for total abstinence surrounded by an ornate border. Lithograph, c. 1860 (?).
  • A drunken man beating his wife while the children try to stop him; a warning against the effects of alcohol. Lithograph.
  • A man sits with a glass in one hand, a pipe in the other and a jug at his feet. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade.
  • The feet of a man with worn shoes stick out of a barrel full of chang'aa alcohol: preventing alcoholism among the poor in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 1997.
  • 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 man leans out of a tavern window with a glass and cap in hand, others watch from inside. Etching by J. Chérin, mid 18th century, after A. van Ostade.
  • Bacchanalian men and women dancing by a garlanded statue of Pan. Engraving by S.S. Smith, 18--, after N. Poussin.
  • The naked body of a child amidst empty bottles in a rubbish tip with a warning about the need to fight alcholism and AIDS. Colour lithograph by Shenoa Egawa Poster Designs, 1994, for the Seattle Indian Health Board.
  • A group of drinkers are disrupted by a water pump telling them to take only "the pledge". Etching, c. 1844, after G. Cruikshank.
  • A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Drinkers and mandolin players in a Roman inn, with landscape seen through an open archway. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1820.
  • A drinking song set to music with an illustration of a drunken party. Engraving and etching by G. Bickham junior, 17--, after G. Monro and W. Hogarth.
  • The drunken Hercules. Engraving by A. Campanella after A. von Maron, 1781.
  • A man sits looking glum and holding his pipe and beer jug. Etching by J. Nothnagel, 1772.
  • A man drinking in a tavern in the company of figures representing poverty and death induced by alcohol. Colour lithograph by J.-J. Waltz (Hansi), 1905.
  • A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • Alcoholism in Russia: brawling and starvation as the results of drinking alcoholic drinks, contrasted with prosperity resulting from abstinence from alcohol. Colour lithograph by T. Nemkova, 1990.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1798, after W. Hogarth.
  • A drunken man beating his wife while the children try to stop him; a warning against the effects of alcohol. Lithograph.
  • A woman and her three children abstaining from alcohol; representing the Swiss league of women abstainers. Colour lithograph after M. Goetz, 1905 (?).
  • A Dutch country tavern with six men drinking and smoking at a table and others by the bar. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1836, after A. van Ostade, 1663.
  • A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.