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  • Some objects from the Musée Pharmacie: a small cabinet with pharmacy bottles and jars and a wooden box decorated with metal. Photograph.
  • 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.
  • Thirty tobacco-pipes from various countries of the world. Wood engraving, c. 1873, after J. T. Balcomb.
  • A young woman weighs out tobacco on a shop counter. Coloured lithograph by C. Regnier, 1843, after Guérard.
  • A married couple, Mr and Mrs Potts, arguing about Mr Potts's habit of tobacco smoking. Lithograph by T.H. Jones.
  • Three men (sailors?) sit at a table smoking pipes and drinking. Lithograph, early 19th century.
  • Fourteen pipes and smoking accessories from various countries. Wood engraving, ca. 1882.
  • An old woman with a tankard in one hand taking a pinch of snuff. Coloured engraving, early 19th century.
  • An old woman with a tankard in one hand taking a pinch of snuff. Coloured engraving, early 19th century.
  • The figure of a man with extra large head made up from cigars, pipes, tobacco leaves, etc. Coloured lithograph by T. Worth?, c. 1880.
  • A man vomits into a bowl as his companion lifts his wig and steadies the bowl. Coloured etching by T. Sandars, 1773, after J. Collier.
  • One man vomits into a bowl as his companion lifts his wig and steadies the bowl. Etching by T. Sandars, 1773, after J. Collier.
  • Philipp Conrad Heidegger. Etching by D. Herrliberger, ca. 1730.
  • China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Colombia: an out-house for preparation of food. Coloured lithograph by C. Empson, 1836.
  • The comedian James Spiller is selling tickets under a giant set of scales which is weighing the actor's debts against his proceeds from theatre tickets. Etching by T. Cook, 1808, after W. Hogarth.
  • In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
  • In the cabinet of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
  • "Pepsalia" : the digestive table salt : a condiment, not a medicine : about indigestion / G. & G. Stern.
  • "Pepsalia" : the digestive table salt : a condiment, not a medicine : about indigestion / G. & G. Stern.
  • "Pepsalia" : the digestive table salt : a condiment, not a medicine : about indigestion / G. & G. Stern.
  • "Pepsalia" : the digestive table salt : a condiment, not a medicine : about indigestion / G. & G. Stern.
  • "Pepsalia" : the digestive table salt : about indigestion / G. & G. Stern.
  • "Pepsalia" : the digestive table salt : about indigestion / G. & G. Stern.
  • "Pepsalia" : the digestive table salt : about indigestion / G. & G. Stern.
  • "Pepsalia" : the digestive table salt : about indigestion / G. & G. Stern.
  • John Bull, with leeches on his chest, sits on a commode full of gold coin; he is attended by Lords Stanhope and Perceval dressed as doctors; Napoleon holds the commode. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1811.
  • A clothed woman stepping on to and off a trestle, lowering a jug over to the other side of it then raising the jug above her head. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting attributed to a Bavarian painter, 18/19th century, after David Teniers the younger.