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  • A rent-boy leans against a bar holding a glass with a message endorsing safe sex. Colour lithograph for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., 199-.
  • A man and woman caress at a bar with drinks with a verse about the importance of safe sex below in Swedish. Colour lithograph by Ted Bates, ca. 1995.
  • Leuk Spa, Switzerland. Wood engraving by R. Alsmus.
  • 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 (?).
  • Customers drink and smoke in a spirit shop in South Africa. Wood engraving, c. 1877.
  • A country village: people feast round a table while others walk home in drunken groups. Etching by P. Chedel after A. Watteau.
  • Drinkers and mandolin players in a Roman inn, with landscape seen through an open archway. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1820.
  • An old man sits with tankard and pipe at a tavern table, three men converse behind him. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).
  • The good Samaritan bringing the half-dead traveller to the inn and providing money for his recovery. Line engraving by J. Taylor after a painting attributed to G. Dou.
  • A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Four men smoking and drinking round a table outside a country tavern. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after C. Dusart.
  • 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.
  • Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.
  • 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.
  • An itinerant vendor advertising his 'sales show' in a square of town. Wood engraving after F. Gilbert.
  • Police raid a lodging house at night and arrest a convicted thief. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • An opium den in London's East End with smokers lying on wooden bunks and slouching by the fire. Wood-engraving by W. B. Murray, c. 1880.
  • An opium den in London's East End with men lying on wooden bunks as a smoker enters. Wood-engraving, c. 1880, after J. C. Dollman.
  • An itinerant vendor advertising his 'sales show' in a square of town. Wood engraving after F. Gilbert.
  • Police raid a lodging house at night and arrest a convicted thief. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • 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 (?).
  • 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 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.
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire. Coloured engraving by P. Brannon, 1846.
  • A village ale-house, in which the landlord is offering a watch as the prize in a raffle. Engraving by G. Greatbach after E. Bird.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Tinted lithograph, c. 1866, after T. Allom.