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  • Tobacco pipes (from New Zealand?). Albumen print.
  • Pottery: clay tobacco pipes, with associated tools. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • A Scotsman and a Native American man smoking pipes by barrels of tobacco. Coloured engraving.
  • Thirty tobacco-pipes from various countries of the world. Wood engraving, c. 1873, after J. T. Balcomb.
  • A sleeping woman being provoked by two men with tobacco pipes. Mezzotint by W. Baillie after G. Dou.
  • Eight illustrations of the kiln used in baking clay tobacco pipes. Engraving by Mutlow, c. 1812, after J. Farey.
  • A man sits at a table smoking as Cupid enters the room with three tobacco pipes. Engraving, c. 1618.
  • A man sits at a table smoking as Cupid enters the room with three tobacco pipes. Engraving, c. 1618.
  • Three men indoors round an inn table with drink, tobacco pipes and cards. Engraving by F. Basan after A. van Ostade.
  • The figure of a man with extra large head made up from cigars, pipes, tobacco leaves, etc. Coloured lithograph by T. Worth?, c. 1880.
  • An African chief smoking a very elaborately carved tobacco-pipe. Process print.
  • Seventeen unlabelled figures illustrating clay tobacco pipe manufacture. Engraving, late-18th century.
  • A woman holding a tobacco pipe and a drinking glass. Mezzotint by B. Lens.
  • A man holding a tobacco pipe and blowing a smoke ring. Mezzotint by A. Blooteling (Bloteling) after P. Staverenus.
  • A Montenegrin man wearing national dress with medals, with a pistol in his belt and holding a tobacco pipe.
  • A man looking out of a window, holding a pipe, exhaling tobacco smoke. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade (?).
  • A black man (Native American?) leans on a barrel while holding a pipe and tobacco leaves. Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • A Greenwich pensioner, filling a pipe with tobacco, a tankard of ale at his elbow. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.
  • A man sits at a table with drink, pipe and tobacco; another looks on and grimaces. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade (?).
  • A man blowing out clouds of smoke from a long pipe, with a tobacco plant to his right. Halftone, c. 1890, after a woodcut, c. 1616.
  • A man sitting indoors with tobacco pipe, jar and beer jug, behind a woman watches two card players. Engraving by Merot, junior, after A. van Ostade.
  • Panacea; or the universal medicine, being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe, with its operation and use both in physick and chyrurgery / By Dr. Everard, etc.
  • Panacea; or the universal medicine, being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe, with its operation and use both in physick and chyrurgery / By Dr. Everard, etc.
  • Tussilago farfara L. Asteraceae. Coltsfoot. Distribution: Europe, N. Africa, W & N Asia . Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Tussilago. Coltsfoot. ... they are admirable good for coughs and consumptions of the lungs, shortness of breath etc. It is often used and with great success taken in a tobacco pipe, being cut and mixed with a little oil of Annis seeds.’ It is hepatotoxic genotoxic and carcinogenic due to the pyrrolizidine alkaloids that it contains. It should not be taken internally (Medicines Control Agency, 2002). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Fifty four different African pipes. Chromolithograph by Schmidt, c. 1863.
  • A seated man in a double-breasted coat smoking a pipe while he rests on a crutch under his left arm. Line engraving with etching.
  • Two men face one another, one looks bemused and the other smokes a pipe upside down. Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • An Indian seated outside his house smoking a hooka. Chromolithograph.
  • A young Moorish man smoking a long-stemmed pipe. Coloured etching by Préval, mid-19th century, after F.C. Compte-Calix, 184-.
  • A man smoking a pipe. Wood-engraving.