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  • An intoxicated man drinking beer; advertising Blauwe Week against alcohol. Lithograph (?), 1936, after A. van Dobbenburgh, 1935.
  • A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers: faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others : with above one hundred and twenty sad and dreadful examples of Gods severe judgements upon notorious drunkards ... To which is added His Majesties proclamation against vicious ... persons ... Also some cautions of a learned doctor of physick [i.e. Everard Maynwaring], declaring how intemperate drinking destroyes our bodily health and strength.
  • A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers: faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others : with above one hundred and twenty sad and dreadful examples of Gods severe judgements upon notorious drunkards ... To which is added His Majesties proclamation against vicious ... persons ... Also some cautions of a learned doctor of physick [i.e. Everard Maynwaring], declaring how intemperate drinking destroyes our bodily health and strength.
  • A skeleton clutching a bottle labelled "Alcoholisme"; advertising an exhibition on alcohol abuse in the Hague, 1911. Lithograph, 1911, after F.M.
  • Thomas Wood, an abstemious miller, aged 53. Reproduction of a stipple engraving by R. Cooper after J. Ogborne, 1773.
  • A profile of a man interpreted by Lavater to be indolent, idle, and a drunkard. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • The life & age of man : shewing the different stages of man's life from the cradle to the grave : wherein all Christians may know their frail nature, and the miseries that attend a sinful life, set forth in a poem.
  • The life & age of man : shewing the different stages of man's life, from the cradle to the grave; wherein all Christians may behold their frail nature, and the miseries that attend a sinful life, set forth in a poem.
  • A young employee is tempted by a drink offered by his fellow workers. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • A doctor advising his patient to give up life's pleasures - though not to go so far as to get married. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1880.
  • Anger, hand drawn illustration
  • Anger, hand drawn illustration
  • A drunkard stands before his poor family and swears by the Holy Bible. Wood-engraving by J. Johnston, c. 1864, after G. Cruikshank.
  • The spider and fly : the advertiser takes this opportunity of informing his friends and a discerning public, that he continues the trade of making drunkards, paupers, thieves, beggars, adulterers, and murderers, on the most reasonable terms, and without notice.
  • Independent Order of Rechabites : the abstainers' Friendly Society ... : [Calendar] 1938.
  • Alcoholism in Russia: brawling and starvation as the results of drinking alcoholic drinks, contrasted with prosperity resulting from abstinence from alcohol. Colour lithograph by T. Nemkova, 1990.
  • Head of an intoxicated man raging against his wife, showing a reason for a week of opposition to alcohol. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1923.
  • Independent Order of Rechabites : the abstainers' Friendly Society ... : [Calendar] 1938.
  • Alcoholism in Russia: brawling and starvation as the results of drinking alcoholic drinks, contrasted with prosperity resulting from abstinence from alcohol. Colour lithograph by T. Nemkova, 1990.
  • A woman and her three children abstaining from alcohol; representing the Swiss league of women abstainers. Colour lithograph after M. Goetz, 1905 (?).
  • Bovril : those who go down to the sea in ships have perhaps more need for Bovril than any other class of men / [Bovril Limited].
  • Bovril : those who go down to the sea in ships have perhaps more need for Bovril than any other class of men / [Bovril Limited].
  • A group of drinkers are disrupted by a water pump telling them to take only "the pledge". Etching, c. 1844, after G. Cruikshank.
  • A well attended meeting of "total abstainers" in the Sadler's Wells Theatre. Wood engraving, c. 1854, after G. Cruikshank.
  • A drunken Doctor Drainbarrel is placed in a wheelbarrow and carted home from the inn. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • Drunkenly gazing at the chin of his daughter, Lot moves amorously towards her. Mezzotint by R. Dunkarton, 1787, after A. de Gelder.
  • Two drunken soldiers ask an apothecary for some 'eau de vie' - some brandy. Coloured lithograph by J. Rigo.
  • A drunken Doctor Drainbarrel is placed in a wheelbarrow and carted home from the inn. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • A man and woman use a redeveloped clyster for scatological, intoxicating purposes (?). Coloured reproduction of an etching after G. de Cari.
  • A man and woman use a redeveloped clyster for scatological, intoxicating purposes (?). Coloured etching by P. Maleuvre after G. de Cari.