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  • A wealthy Afghan lady reclining and smoking a hooka. Coloured lithograph by R. Carrick, c. 1848, after J. Rattray.
  • A European gentleman smoking a hooka and being attended to by Asian men. Coloured etching, c. 1765.
  • Men smoking and drinking outside a coffee shop in Cairo. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1849, after D. Roberts.
  • An opium den in San Francisco, early 20th century, with two Chinese men smoking. Process print after a photograph.
  • Cairo: a coffee-house with men sitting on wooden benches to smoke and drink. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.
  • An Englishman sits smoking a hookah as an Asian man approaches making a salaam. Engraving by W. Humphrys, c. 1834, after W. Daniell.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Tinted lithograph, c. 1866, after T. Allom.
  • A man sits at a table preparing to smoke his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade.
  • A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).
  • An Egyptian man sits beside his hooka writing a letter, he is watched by his client, a woman. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1849, after D. Roberts.
  • Fourteen pipes and smoking accessories from various countries. Wood engraving, ca. 1882.
  • The figure of a man with extra large head made up from cigars, pipes, tobacco leaves, etc. Coloured lithograph by T. Worth?, c. 1880.
  • An African chief smoking a very elaborately carved tobacco-pipe. Process print.
  • A Russian nobleman riding with his servant and smoking a hooka. Coloured lithograph by D. Dighton, c. 1820, after A. Orlowski.
  • A Bombay square: some men carry sedan chairs and others smoke. Coloured aquatint after R.M. Grindlay, 1826.
  • Smokers in a Turkish coffee house listen eagerly to news brought by a courier. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • A man sits at a table preparing to smoke his pipe, behind him hangs a portrait. Mezzotint after A. van Ostade.
  • A young Jewish woman with long-crowned turban kneels on a mat smoking opium. Engraving, c. 1702.
  • A Mandarin sits on a mat, smoking a long opium pipe. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely, c. 1820.
  • A married couple, Mr and Mrs Potts, arguing about Mr Potts's habit of tobacco smoking. Lithograph by T.H. Jones.
  • Constantinople: a boy presents a smoking hookah to Mr Sotiri, Albanian interpreter to the British consul in Bucharest. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • Shops of hashish merchants on a street in Cairo. Chromolithograph by A. Preziosi, c. 1850, after himself.
  • A family gather indoors round a large open fireplace talking and smoking. Engraving by C. de Visscher after A. van Ostade, c. 1656.
  • Three men sit and stand by a table to smoke. Mezzotint after D. Teniers, the younger (?).
  • A man sits at a table smoking as Cupid enters the room with three tobacco pipes. Engraving, c. 1618.
  • A man sits at a table smoking as Cupid enters the room with three tobacco pipes. Engraving, c. 1618.
  • A man bearing a hooka. Coloured stipple print, c. 1828.
  • A man vomits into a bowl as his companion lifts his wig and steadies the bowl. Coloured etching by T. Sandars, 1773, after J. Collier.
  • One man vomits into a bowl as his companion lifts his wig and steadies the bowl. Etching by T. Sandars, 1773, after J. Collier.
  • Two men sit in an inn, one smokes while the other lights his pipe. Etching by Charles Jacque and L. Subercaze after A. van Ostade.