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  • Drinkers and mandolin players in a Roman inn, with landscape seen through an open archway. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1820.
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • A lecherous drinker sits with a girl at a barrel table in a dingy tavern. Engraving by P. Canot, c. 1756, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Two Dutch topers clasping a beer jug and smoking. Mezzotint, c. 1831, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Four men smoking and drinking round a table outside a country tavern. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after C. Dusart.
  • Two Dutch topers clasping a beer jug and smoking. Mezzotint after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • St Bartholomew the Great, London: the western entrance, in a ruined state. Wood engraving by J. Brown.
  • A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Men and women smoking and drinking outside a country tavern. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after G. Tilborgh.
  • Three London scenes: a man being cajoled by two prostitutes, a young man being accosted by two debt-collectors, and a physician attending a patient. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after J. Sheringham, 1821.
  • Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.
  • A fiddler plays in a tavern with a family drinking at one table and others in the background. Engraving by Ryland after R. Brakenburg.
  • The interior of a tavern with men smoking and drinking by a barrel table and playing cards by the fire. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after D. Teniers.
  • A man plays the fiddle at a tavern table as another sings and others listen. Engraving by M. Liart, c. 1783, after A. van Ostade.
  • The Sheffield election of 1868: (left) two men play cards and drink in a warm pub; (right) two women (one with a baby) beg and cower in a snowy street. Transfer lithograph, 1868.
  • An old man sits with tankard and pipe at a tavern table, three men converse behind him. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).
  • A fashionable gentleman sits with his arm round a lady by a tavern table as a girl chalks up drinks on a slate. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).
  • Six men play cards and smoke outside a country inn with a castle in the distance. Etching by B. Chiboust, mid-17th century, after D. Teniers (?).
  • 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.
  • Interior of a posada with men smoking and playing cards as others and a mule rest nearby. Coloured lithograph after J. F. Lewis, 1836.
  • Two men playing backgammon on a barrel-table as others watch and smoke. Mezzotint after E. van Heemskirk.
  • A club room where various men lounge about and one serves drink at a counter. Coloured etching, mid 19th century.
  • Men and women in a dingy tavern smoking and drinking round a large barrel table. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after G. van Herp (?).
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard, with many people in the road. Coloured engraving after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
  • An old sailor with wooden leg and a man with no arms drinking in a tavern; below is a song about their seafaring days. Etching by I. Cruikshank, c. 1791.
  • A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion. Aquatint by J. Sayer, 1805.
  • Two men at a table, one lights a pipe and the other stands holding a glass. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade.