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  • Two Greenwich Pensioners sitting in the garden of a tavern, near the Hospital, a woman behind listening to them, another Pensioner in the distance on the right. Mezzotint, 1791.
  • Men smoking, drinking and singing in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after E. van Heemskerk.
  • A Greenwich pensioner, filling a pipe with tobacco, a tankard of ale at his elbow. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.
  • 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.
  • The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.
  • Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.
  • A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.
  • A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.
  • A man blowing out clouds of smoke from a long pipe, with a tobacco plant to his right. Halftone, c. 1890, after a woodcut, c. 1616.
  • Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.
  • Smoking tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Two men indoors at a small table: one smokes while the other fills his pipe. Engraving by J.G. Wille, 1773, after A. van Ostade.
  • A man sits at a table preparing to smoke his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade.
  • Two monkeys in feathered caps smoking tobacco. Engraving after D. Teniers.
  • To thine own self be true : I promise by the help of GOD, for my own sake, and as an example to others, to abstain from the use of Tobacco in every form, until I am at least 21 years of age... / The Primitive Methodist Anti-Cigarette League.
  • Britannia holding a trident in one hand and tobacco leaves in the other. Engraving by Silvester, early 19th century.
  • A group of boys are smoking: they have tied the gate to prevent the man with a strap from chasing them. Etching by H.C. Shenton after W. Kidd.
  • A black man (Native American?) leans on a barrel while holding a pipe and tobacco leaves. Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections against the cholera epidemic, the latter represented as a hag; representing an overabundance of useless advice concerning protection against cholera. Coloured etching by J.B. Wunder, c. 1832.
  • An old woman raises her glass to two men, one with a jug and pipe. Engraving by C. Visscher after A. van Ostade.
  • A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections against the cholera epidemic, the latter represented as a hag; representing an overabundance of useless advice concerning protection against cholera. Coloured etching by J.B. Wunder, c. 1832.
  • 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.
  • Three men (sailors?) sit at a table smoking pipes and drinking. Lithograph, early 19th century.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner sits with a Chelsea Pensioner, telling stories of their campaigns: each is disabled in various ways. Coloured etching by Robert Dighton, 1801.
  • A tobacco plantation with workers, a Mexican Indian (?) and two European masters. Coloured engraving, c. 1821.
  • 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.
  • A man sitting indoors with tobacco pipe, jar and beer jug, behind a woman watches two card players. Engraving by Merot, junior, after A. van Ostade.
  • An old woman raises her glass to two men, one with a jug and pipe. Mezzotint by R. Purcell, late 18th century, after A. Brouwer.
  • A tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum), its flowers and seeds, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.