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  • Five men gather round a table to play cards, drink and smoke in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Playing cards with a condom and a warning gambling games are dangerous when it comes to AIDS; an advertisement by the Lions Club of Bombay Hilltop and the HIV/AIDS Information and Guidance Centre in Bombay. Lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Cabinet-making: decorative borders. Engraving by E. Turrell after H. Whitaker, 1848.
  • Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards / By W. Hooper.
  • The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Apollo presiding over a gentleman of sensual appetite; representing the sanguine temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • Six figures passing the time with various entertainments. Mezzotint by J. Wilson, 1771, after G.M. Kraus.
  • Three men sit smoking at a barrel-table in a dingy smoke-filled den, others play cards. Engraving by R. Cooper, c. 1813, after J.(?) W. Strutt after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Five men in a smoke den smoke and drink as, in the background, others play cards. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1840, after D. Teniers.
  • Medusa presiding over groups of satyrs who are gambling; representing gambling or gaming as a passion. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • Three men sit smoking at a barrel-table in a dingy smoke-filled den, others play cards. Engraving by R. Cooper, c. 1813, after J.(?) W. Strutt after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Cabinet-making: a table for card games. Engraving by E. Turrell after H. Whitaker, 1848.
  • Two men play cards at a table as others watch and smoke by the fire. Engraving by J. Michel, c. 1778, after J. Boydell after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A man sits at a table with playing cards and drink in hand, his wife threatens him as his playing partner makes his departure. Engraving by F. Basan after Dumesnil, junior.
  • An all-night gambling party breaks up at four o'clock in the morning: one man says he has lost his last twenty francs. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1824.
  • The fortunes of Peter Pickle, Esquire, whose fashionable lifestyle ends with a drink problem. Etching by R. Seymour, 1829.
  • Six men play cards and smoke outside a country inn with a castle in the distance. Etching by B. Chiboust, mid-17th century, after D. Teniers (?).
  • The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by P. Moitte, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Apollo presiding over a gentleman of sensual appetite; representing the sanguine temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Boer War: two wounded men, one Boer and one British, playing at cards in a hospital ward as a nurse looks on. Pen and ink drawing by G. B.
  • A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A couple sit in a slum dwelling playing a card game; the man is drinking from a tankard and washing is hanging from a line stretched across the room. Wood engraving by E. Landells after H.K. Browne.
  • The figure of a woman divided in two parts: half skeleton, half lady of fashion, standing next to a obelisk inscribed with biblical quotations. Etching, 17--, attributed to V. Green.
  • A man has his fist raised against another man as playing cards lie all around, a woman carrying a tray recoils in fright. Etching.
  • Five men sit indoors smoking and drinking, others play cards. Engraving, mid-19th century, by W. French after D. Teniers.
  • While Lady Buckingham is gambling with her cronies, her husband enters to report the theft of the bank. Etching by James Gillray, 1797.
  • A family playing a game of cards on a drum; one man is wearing part of a suit of armour, the other, a wide-brimmed hat with feathers in it. Gouache.
  • Two men play cards at a table as others watch, smoke and drink in a dingy smoke den. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1771, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • The interior of a tavern with men smoking and drinking by a barrel table and playing cards by the fire. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after D. Teniers.