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  • A man tasting tea with inset picture of kettles boiling. Pen and ink drawing, c. 1890.
  • Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: kitchen area, with stoves and kettles. Photograph, 1916.
  • [Leaflet advertising the British Red Cross Society (Purley Branch)'s Medical Loan Depot hiring "all types of nursing equipment" from invalid chairs to bronchitis kettles].
  • [Leaflet advertising the British Red Cross Society (Purley Branch)'s Medical Loan Depot hiring "all types of nursing equipment" from invalid chairs to bronchitis kettles].
  • Indian kettle-drummers. Gouache drawing.
  • Kettle-drum, collected in Uganda.
  • Kettle drum, West African, with drum stick
  • Kettle drum, West African, close up of inscription
  • Anna Seward. Stipple engraving by A. Cardon, 1811, after T. Kettle, 1762.
  • Kettle drum, from the region of the cataracts, Belgian Congo, Africa
  • A woman tending a kettle. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoyo, early 1860s.
  • A young Indian boy, wearing many beads and carrying a kettle, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Lord Lyndhurst, as a cook with a large ladle in his hand, is roasting beef on the spit as a large kettle boils. Etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • A tea seller: a kettle and a basket containing teapot and bowls are hanging from a bamboo pole across his shoulders. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • A man pours tea for a resting Chinese warrior as a kettle steams on the stove beside them. Coloured etching with ornamentation after F. Boucher, early 18th century.
  • A coachman with a whip and a woman with a kettle: the man mistrusts anything using steam (implying steam trains). Pencil and ink wash by S. Jenner, ca. 1830.
  • Soakage pit on a military camp (?) in Egypt (?); an Arab man pours water into the pit's gutter from a kettle, outside wooden huts. Photograph by J.D. Graham, 1914/1918 (?).
  • John Bancks, expecting a visit by a lady, has tea prepared for her, but she does not turn up, the servant accidentally breaks a bowl, and the kettle placed in front of the fire melts. Etching by I. Basire, 1738.
  • Above left, a tiger (?) restrained with a collar and a cloth over its head; left, a man on crutches steps over a sleeping man; centre, a man fans a stove on which a kettle is placed, watched by a man (right) kneeling by a cabinet (?); above right, an old woman sharpens (?) a knife. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.
  • John Bull making hop-tea in front of a hop grower and his workers; representing adulteration of beer by brewers. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1890, after himself.
  • A lady waiting for the repair of her pan at a tinker's stall. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • Items of interest in learning depicted with their names. Etching.
  • A foodwarmer, White Staffordshire or Leeds, 19thC.
  • Various items of brewing apparatus and their constituent parts. Engraving by J. Taylor, 19th century, after C. Varley.
  • A man, decrepit with gout, helpless in his own home. Coloured lithograph.
  • An obese gouty man in trouble, while his attendants cavort. Coloured lithograph by T. Rowlandson.
  • China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.