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  • The Rake's Progress: Drinking and gambling.
  • Medusa presiding over groups of satyrs who are gambling; representing gambling or gaming as a passion. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • A roulette wheel and other forms of gambling among Chinese in the Netherlands; advertising the Chinese gambling helpline. Colour lithograph for Trimbos-instituut and GGZ Nederland, 2001.
  • Men gambling in a casino or gaming club. Aquatint, ca. 181-.
  • Two episodes about Mr. Muff losing money gambling at the races. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • Volidan 21 the oral contraceptive with really low and predictable oestrogenic activity : gambling and the British.
  • Volidan 21 the oral contraceptive with really low and predictable oestrogenic activity : gambling and the British.
  • Many figures including a woman identified as Venus gambling with Cupid, evidence of torture and tumult. Engraving.
  • British politicians gambling at Ascot. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 14 June 1884.
  • A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A man holds his head in despair as the croupier claims all his chips in the gambling game. Wood engraving.
  • A man holds his head in despair as the croupier claims all his chips in the gambling game. Wood engraving.
  • Negligence and idleness represented as a dishevelled woman surrounded by people gambling, drinking, fighting etc. Engraving attributed to P. Galle.
  • A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • While Lady Buckingham is gambling with her cronies, her husband enters to report the theft of the bank. Etching by James Gillray, 1797.
  • A dishevelled Tom Rakewell in the gambling house, the obsessed gamblers are unaware of a fire breaking out in the wainscoting. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • An all-night gambling party breaks up at four o'clock in the morning: one man says he has lost his last twenty francs. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1824.
  • After losing their money through gambling and killing their father in an accident, one brother kills himself with poison while another shoots himself in the head with a pistol. Etching, 179-.
  • A wife surprises her husband by showing him evidence of his gambling debts, and reveals that she has covered his debts by betting against him. Stipple engraving by J. Strutt after T. Stothard.
  • Dice representing gambling with health; an advertisement for the Genito Urinary Medicine Clinic (GUM) for treatment and advice on sexually transmitted diseases like Aids by The Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland. Colour lithograph.
  • A skeleton hand holds a playing card bearing skull and bones, the number '12' and 'La pelona'; representing the idea that AIDS means gambling with your life, an advertisement by Conasida. Colour lithograph by Carlos Gayou, ca. 1996.
  • Playing cards with a condom and a warning gambling games are dangerous when it comes to AIDS; an advertisement by the Lions Club of Bombay Hilltop and the HIV/AIDS Information and Guidance Centre in Bombay. Lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A man crawls on all fours towards a gambling dice bearing hearts as a glamorous woman holding a bag looks on; with diagrams on how AIDS is not contracted along the bottom; an advertisement for safe sex by the OFfice of Federal Health and Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Birez.
  • J.C. Gambles & Co., Ltd.
  • J.C. Gambles & Co., Ltd.
  • Are you willing to gamble... / Millipore Corporation.
  • Are you willing to gamble... / Millipore Corporation.
  • Are you willing to gamble... / Millipore Corporation.
  • Are you willing to gamble... / Millipore Corporation.
  • Are you willing to gamble... / Millipore Corporation.