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  • A bell-founder with his stock of bells, mortars, braziers etc. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Winter: an old man warming his hands before a brazier. Wax sculpture.
  • A woman holds a pan of chestnuts over a blazing brazier. Coloured etching.
  • A seated and a reclining boy clutching grapes before a brazier. Red chalk drawing.
  • Boer War: a hospital train at the Battle of Colenso with soldiers milling around. Halftone, c. 1900, after H. Brazier-Creagh.
  • Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.
  • Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.
  • Two Indian men, one carrying a brazier, the other in a red tunic. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Market traders selling vegetables, and a man cooking in a long-handled pan on a brazier; beyond, an ancient wall and a rotunda. Etching by J. Pelletier after J.B.M. Pierre.
  • (Left) an old woman sitting on a stool with a cat and warming her hands at a brazier; (right) an old man playing the hurdy-gurdy. Etching by E. Russell after J. Callot.
  • A man sits on a stool in front of a small brazier with tools and boxes lying on the ground and a woman and child with a dog are standing on the step. Etching by L.J. Cromstone.
  • Armand, a curator in a zoo, meets Mme Girard while a nanny looks after her child. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Canu, 1821.
  • A Buddhist monk seated. Black and red chalk drawing by R. Strasser, 1926.
  • A large Chinese man sits on a rock fanning himself as his pipe-bearer stands by. Etching by J. Caldwell, c. 1796, after W. Alexander.
  • A family gather indoors round a large open fireplace talking and smoking. Engraving by C. de Visscher after A. van Ostade, c. 1656.
  • 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 (?).
  • A man sits at a table preparing to smoke his pipe, behind him hangs a portrait. Mezzotint after A. van Ostade.
  • Smokers in a Turkish coffee house listen eagerly to news brought by a courier. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • A young woman sits drinking in an arbor as a man prepares to smoke at the table beside her. Etching by C. Dusart, 1694.
  • A fiddler plays in a tavern with a family drinking at one table and others in the background. Engraving by Ryland after R. Brakenburg.
  • A tobacco plantation with workers, a Mexican Indian (?) and two European masters. Coloured engraving, c. 1821.
  • 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.
  • Two men playing backgammon on a barrel-table as others watch and smoke. Mezzotint after E. van Heemskirk.
  • A man sits smoking at a table as a woman brings him drink. Engraving by L. Gaineau, 1785, after G. Mieris.
  • Two men at a table, one lights a pipe and the other stands holding a glass. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade.
  • Three men sit smoking and drinking at a barrel-table. Engraving by J. Suyderhof, 16--, after A. Brouwer.
  • Five mens gathered round a table smoking, a woman looks on. Engraving by P. Maloeuvre after A. Brouwer.
  • Four men sit indoors smoking round a barrel-table, others drink by the fireplace. Lithograph after D. Teniers (?).