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  • A Chilean wine label illustrated with a large house and vineyard. Engraving, 19th century.
  • A Chilean wine label illustrated with a large house and vineyard. Engraving, 19th century.
  • A man lies drunk in his chair, his last glass of drink fallen from his hand. Lithograph by Lamy, c. 1860, after Villain.
  • People sitting around a table outside a building, and a woman bringing them a pitcher of beer. Etching and aquatint.
  • Two men in bed on a Saturday night drinking from a bottle of alcohol. Colour process print, ca. 1908.
  • A young couple sit together at a table, the man has his leg across the woman's knees and a glass of wine in his hand: they are laughing and reading by candlelight. Engraving by J. Houbraken after C. Troost.
  • An ornamental French cognac label. Colour lithograph by G. Nissou, 19th century.
  • Two men seated at a table, drinking: one has his glass raised, and the other is joining in the toast. Mezzotint by W. Say after H. Fradelle.
  • Two men in bed on a Saturday night drinking from a bottle of alcohol. Colour process print, ca. 1908.
  • An ornamental French cognac label. Lithograph by G. Nissou and Pichot, 19th century.
  • An ornamental French cognac label. Engraving, 18--.
  • A man drinks from a glass as a woman holds a jug and raises her hand in the air. Engraving after M. van Cleve.
  • Three men handing out wine from a high wooden structure to a drunken hoard clutching large jugs, etc. Aquatint, c. 1822.
  • A fat parson with large glass of port in hand is watched by a thin, naked man representing care (worry), and tells him to be gone. Coloured etching after G. Woodward, 1796.
  • A man sits by a table and examines a full glass of wine that he holds to the light. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, c. 1824, after M. W. Sharp.
  • Local people gathered in a Scottish smithy for food and drink. Etching by W. Lizars, 18--.
  • A man with tankard in hand leans by a window. Mezzotint, early 19th century, after A. van Ostade.
  • A man in a fur cap holding a drinking glass in one hand and a pipe in the other. Mezzotint after G. van Herp (?), mid 17th century.
  • Three drunken men carousing round a kitchen table. Etching, c. 1836, after H. K. Browne [Phiz].
  • Three poor men burdened with barrels of alcohol, being freed by a man from the Temperance Society, while a woman looks on. Wood-engraving by S. Barr, c. 1840, with letterpress.
  • African people brewing pombe beside a pile of sorghum grain. Wood engraving by J. B. Zwecker.
  • An old monk in his habit drinks from a large glass and waves with his left hand. Engraving.
  • The bad effect of alcohol drinking on industrial productivity: a healthy young man carrying a drill walking from a smoking factory, contrasted with a bottle of spirits wrapped by a hissing snake. Colour lithograph, 1952.
  • A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Customers drink and smoke in a spirit shop in South Africa. Wood engraving, c. 1877.
  • A Vespetro label illustrated with a bunch of four plants. Coloured engraving, 19th century.
  • A mint liqueur label illustrated with two men, an angel and a crown. Engraving, 19th century.
  • Two men in clerical dress are sitting at a table holding drinks in their hands, as they are reproved by a cleric accompanied by a beadle. Engraving.
  • Groups of men sitting at tables smoking and having a merry time: one man has fallen to the floor and spilled his tankard of ale. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after S. Collings.