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  • The interior and exterior of a working brewhouse. Engraving, c. 1747.
  • Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.
  • A Chilean wine label illustrated with a large house and vineyard. Engraving, 19th century.
  • Customers drink and smoke in a spirit shop in South Africa. Wood engraving, c. 1877.
  • The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.
  • A Chilean wine label illustrated with a large house and vineyard. Engraving, 19th century.
  • Hop pickers at work. Wood-engraving, c. 1842 (?).
  • A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; attacking the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling gin to unlicensed premises. Engraving, 1751.
  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • An Indian man selling alcohol to a couple. Gouache drawing.
  • Horizontal and vertical sections through a porter brewery mash tun, and its constituent parts. Engraving by J. Moffat, c. 1830, after J. Farey.
  • A still house in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century.
  • Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: horses and workers in the stables. Wood-engraving, 1847.
  • Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.
  • A drunken man and woman lean against pillars leading to a giant distillery with attendant demon; miscellaneous characters round as border. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
  • A liqueur label illustrated with a French liquor shop interior. Coloured engraving, 19th century.
  • Hop pickers at work. Wood-engraving, c. 1843 (?).
  • A labelled section through a porter brewery. Engraving by Mutlow, c. 1812, after J. Farey.
  • Various unlabelled items of brewing apparatus in horizontal and vertical section. Engraving by J. Moffat, c. 1830, after J. Farey.
  • Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, Kent. Engraving by H. Wallis, 1830, after T.M. Baynes.
  • Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors watching beer fermenting in a large brewhouse. Wood-engraving, 1847.
  • Policemen apprehend a pickpocket taking a license from a publican; representing the value to the government of publicans' licenses. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1890, after himself.
  • A labelled section through a brewhouse showing brewing utensils and machinery. Wood-engraving, c. 1847.
  • The interior and exterior of a working brewhouse. Engraving, c. 1747.
  • 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.
  • One ornamental and one plain label for the French distiller, Lemoine. Etching with engraving, 19th century.
  • Toddy tappers at work: two men and a woman by a palm tree. Gouache drawing, 18--.
  • An Indian man selling alcohol to a couple. Gouache drawing.
  • Five labelled sections through parts of a porter brewery. Engraving by W. Lowry, c. 1816, after J. Farey.
  • Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors in a storeroom full of casks of ale. Wood-engraving, 1847.