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  • Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.
  • A Greenwich pensioner, filling a pipe with tobacco, a tankard of ale at his elbow. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.
  • A log cabin, which housed the first printing press at the head of Lake Superior. Process print after a lithograph of 1855.
  • 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.
  • Pensioners of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, and others, celebrating the destruction of the Russian navy. Coloured lithograph, 1855.
  • 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 small man representing the press is holding a spoon with a gooseberry on it and feeding it to John Bull; representing worthless news stories in the British press during the summer. Process print after Ricardo Brook.
  • 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.
  • 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 busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • Two dustmen are sitting at a table in a coffee house: one is reading parliamentary reports in the newspaper supplied by the establishment while the other waits patiently to read it for its scientific announcements. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • A man sitting in a bar reflects on the obituaries he has read in the daily newspaper which he holds in his hand. Lithograph by F.D.
  • A fat man sits at his fireside taking snuff with a smoking pipe and drink by his side. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1822, after J. Gillray.
  • Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club. Coloured aquatint by John Caspar Ziegler after George Moutard Woodward, published by William Holland, 1798.
  • Baden-Baden, Germany: Gustav Stresemann sitting on the terrace of a grape-cure establishment, reading the newspapers. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • A barber curling a customer's hair with hot tongs is distracted by an item in the newspaper, consequently burning the man's head. Mezzotint by A.M. Huffam, 1827, after M.W. Sharp.
  • Charles James Fox as a newsboy delivering newspapers to the Treasury, spreading panic and advertising his suitability for a government post. Etching by James Gillray.
  • A man lighting his pipe from a candle while holding a newspaper. Mezzotint after Vandermyn.
  • A club room where various men lounge about and one serves drink at a counter. Coloured etching, mid 19th century.
  • Three doctors converge around John Pitt, 2nd earl of Chatham, as their patient; representing the embarrassment of the failed Walcheren Expedition in Flanders. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1809.
  • 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 barber shaving a man while another man distracts him by reading from a newspaper entitled "The true sun". Coloured lithograph.
  • Rivalry between newspapers; caricatured by two men squirting printing ink at one another from either end of a table. Lithograph.
  • Three doctors converge around John Pitt, 2nd earl of Chatham, as their patient; representing the embarrassment of the failed Walcheren Expedition in Flanders. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1809.
  • Newspaper cuttings about AIDS and lesbians with the words: "Invisible, ignored, unstudied, unrepresented". Photocopy.
  • Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club. Coloured aquatint by John Caspar Ziegler after George Moutard Woodward, published by William Holland, 1798.
  • A monkey wearing spectacles reads the Times newspaper, with the Examiner under his arm, sitting beside a globe. Etching by T. Landseer, 1827.
  • A young woman holding an Amsterdam newspaper looks away in contemplation. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 17--, after G. ter Borch.
  • King's Cross disease centre 'terror target' : follow the story every day : Evening Standard : know what London's thinking.
  • A barber reading political news from a newspaper to his client; in the background another man listens too. Mezzotint after T. Clater (?).