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  • Food for thought... : food facts for healthy hearts from the British Heart Foundation, the heart research charity / written, designed and produced by Burnett Associates ; illustrated by Val Sassoon.
  • A physician receiving a glass from a female servant while visiting a young female patient who is in bed. Coloured lithograph by P.H.L. Van der Meulen after J. Steen.
  • Contributors to Frazer's Magazine, sitting around a dining table, talking, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by D. Maclise [A. Croquis], 1835.
  • A man plays the fiddle at a tavern table as another sings and others listen. Engraving by M. Liart, c. 1783, after A. van Ostade.
  • David playing the harp for a melancholy Saul to ease his mind, they are surrounded by courtiers. Etching by J. Kip after G. Freman.
  • A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • A man sits at a table with a drink and discarded pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade (?).
  • Men with hangovers after a night's heavy drinking; advertising Eno's Fruit Salt. Wood-engraving, 18--, by Dalziel after A. Claxton.
  • A multiple-choice question about the harmful effects of beer advertising a quiz on alcohol abuse. Colour lithograph by Nationaal Instituut voor Gezondheidsbevordering en Ziektepreventie, 2000.
  • Rembrandt, portrayed perhaps as the prodigal son, stands with his arm round a lady (represented by his wife Saskia) by a banquet table and raises his glass. Lithograph after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • An old man sits content with a glass in one hand and a tankard in the other. Engraving by F.A. David, 1774, after A. van Ostade.
  • A man with gout who finds the remedies worse than the disease. Etching by T.L. Busby, 182-.
  • A man plays the fiddle at a tavern table as another sings and others listen. Engraving by J. Heudelot, late 18th century, after A. van Ostade.
  • A bottle of liquor pointing a finger at a devil; representing alcohol as a cause of delirium tremens. Colour lithograph after I.A. Vol'nova, 1984.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • A seated man smoking with a tankard on the table by his side. Procees print after P. Rajon, 1872, after J.L. Meissonier, 1858.
  • A woman sits drinking as a man sleeps with his head on the table beside her. Engraving by L. Duval, early 19th century, after a design by J. Wicar after G. Terburg.
  • Two Dutch topers clasping a beer jug and smoking. Mezzotint, c. 1831, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A man barking and drinking port, following a doctor's orders. Coloured aquatint by I. Wilson after M. Egerton, 182-..
  • Mr. Lambkin at a party with some unsavoury looking company. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Bacchus on a chariot preceded by a drunken procession of nude men, women and satyrs all carrying grapes. Engraving, 16--, after G. Romano.
  • Bacchus with attendant satyrs sits drinking by a cave as Venus appears to him and offers him a cup of love. Engraving by J. Audran after A. Coypel, 1704.
  • Two men at a table, one lights a pipe and the other stands holding a glass. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade.
  • Sailors at a drunken orgy. Mezzotint by W. Ward, 1807, after J.C. Ibbetson, 1802.
  • Food for thought... : food facts for healthy hearts from the British Heart Foundation, the heart research charity / written, designed and produced by Burnett Associates ; illustrated by Val Sassoon.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.
  • Men and women carousing in a stately bedroom, with accompanying text on the artist. Engraving by J. L. Delignon, late 18th century, after A. Borel after J. B. Weenix.
  • Two men in clerical dress are sitting at a table holding drinks in their hands, as they are reproved by a cleric accompanied by a beadle. Engraving.
  • 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.