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  • A lecherous drinker sits with a girl at a barrel table in a dingy tavern. Engraving by P. Canot, c. 1756, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Noah, drunk and naked, being covered in a garment by his sons, Shem and Japheth; with a border of naked men holding medallions. Halftone after Michelangelo.
  • 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.
  • Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.
  • A 14th century silver drinking horn with explanatory text. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • An angel rescues Hagar and Ishmael in the wilderness. Etching by E. Rooker after C. Le Brun.
  • A man leans over a seated woman who holds a glass and bottle in either hand. Mezzotint by J. Smith, 1702, after E. van Heemskerk.
  • A man with tankard in hand leans by a window. Mezzotint, early 19th century, after A. van Ostade.
  • Three men handing out wine from a high wooden structure to a drunken hoard clutching large jugs, etc. Aquatint, c. 1822.
  • Peasants sitting, smoking, outside an inn as the hostess pours a glass of ale. Engraving by J. Suyderhoff after A. van Ostade.
  • A woman holds up a jug; representing the study of nature. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • 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.
  • A baboon sitting on the ground with a smoking pipe and tankard. Etching with stipple by W. Panormo after himself.
  • A man sits smoking by a fireplace with a jug on the floor beside him. Engraving, c. 1825.
  • Five ornate German drinking vessels. Engraving by F. Fairholt, 19th century, after himself.
  • 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 drunken street brawl between four young colporteurs and a man, with two accompanying couplets. Etching, 16th century (?).
  • Hagar and Ishmael saved by an angel. Coloured mezzotint by R. Dunkarton, 1798, after J.S. Copley.
  • 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 Dutch man and woman sit at a table in a summer house; he smokes a pipe. Engraving by S. Springsguth, c. 1792, after P.P. Benazech.
  • 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 sits by a fireplace lighting his pipe with an ember while a servant girl brings his drink. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after G. Metsu.
  • 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.
  • Five men in a smoke den smoke and drink as, in the background, others play cards. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1840, after D. Teniers.
  • Three men sit smoking and drinking at a barrel-table. Engraving by J. Suyderhof, 16--, after A. Brouwer.
  • Men playing backgammon outside in an arbor, nearby others smoke and drink. Etching by J. de Visscher after A. van Ostade.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients taking afternoon tea, and a nurse waiting to collect a letter from a slow writer. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A man sits with a glass in one hand, a pipe in the other and a jug at his feet. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade.
  • A drinking-horn (rhyton) in the form of the head of a deer: outline drawing with measurements. Engraving, 17--.