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Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
Boilard, active approximately 1720.Reference: 20262i- Pictures
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Safe activities in which the AIDS virus is not transmitted including top left shaking hands to blood donation bottom right with subtitles to diagrams in French; advertisement by CRAM, [La Caisse Régionale d'assurance Maladie de Bourgogne Franche-Comté]. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 672633i- Ephemera
Mature mistress of golden showers invites you to drink for the fountain of knowledge : all major credit cards taken.
Date: [1993]- Pictures
Diogenes, in the environs of Athens, sees a man drinking water with his hands and discards his cup as unnecessary. Engraving by E. Baudet after N. Poussin, 169-.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.Date: [between 1694 and 1700?]Reference: 3043901i- Pictures
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A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26035iPart of: The drunkard's children- Pictures
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A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26022iPart of: The drunkard's children- Pictures
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James Bruce of Kinnaird, having reached a fountain at Gisha (Abyssinia) regarded as the source of the Nile, uses a coconut to drink the water to the health of King George III and Empress Catherine the Great. Engraving by J. Gillray, 1793, after R.M. Paye.
Paye, Richard Morton, 1750-1821.Date: March 1793Reference: 667946i- Pictures
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A coffee jug, a fork, the receiving end of a phone, a tab on a computer, a toilet sign and a drinking tap with a message about where you can't get HIV; a poster from the Business responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph, 1993.
Date: 1993Reference: 667394i- Books
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Les amusemens de Spa: or the gallantries of the Spaw in Germany. Containing the nature of the several springs, with their singular virtues and uses. The reasons (besides that of drinking the waters) why they are frequented by people of the first quality. The various diversions and amusements of the place. Many secret histories and adventures of the principal persons resorting to it. Intermixt with innumerable strokes of the most refined wit, humour, gaiety, &c. The whole adorn'd with thirteen copper plates finely engrav'd, representing the town of Spaw, with the several fountains, cascades, walks, and avenues in the neighbourhood of that celebrated village. Translated from the original French. The second edition. In two volumes.
Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von, 1692-1775.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Archives and manuscripts
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Manuscript recipe book of Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1654-1744)
Date: 1662 - mid 18th centuryReference: MS.8903- Archives and manuscripts
Oldenshaw, Millicent
Date: 26 Feb 1885Reference: GALTON/1/1/5/2/17Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Lonsdale, John Gylby
Date: Apr 1885Reference: GALTON/1/1/5/2/15Part of: Galton Papers- Pictures
The Roman forum: the three columns of the temple of Castor and Pollux, and the church of Santa Maria Liberatrice. Etching by D. Cunego, 17--, after C.L. Clérisseau.
Clérisseau, Charles-Louis, 1721-1820.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 2924544i- Pictures
The spring Fonte Bello near the site of Horace's villa. Etching and engraving by B.A. Dunker and G. Eichler after J. Ph. Hackert, 1780.
Hackert, Philipp, 1737-1807.Date: [between 1780 and 1789]Reference: 2922561i- Archives and manuscripts
Material relating to the Erasmus Darwin Memorial
Date: 1885-1887Reference: GALTON/1/1/5/1/4Part of: Galton Papers- Pictures
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Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
Pogorelʹskiĭ, S., active approximately 1920.Date: [1920?]Reference: 535994i- Books
The Tudor kitchen : what the Tudors ate & drank / Terry Breverton.
Breverton, Terry, 1946-Date: [2015]- Books
Water 4.0 : the past, present, and future of the world's most vital resource / David Sedlak.
Sedlak, David L.Date: [2014]- Pictures
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Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro) shows the shepherd Syphilus and the hunter Ilceus a statue of Venus to warn them against the danger of infection with syphilis. Engraving by Jan Sadeler I, 1588/1595, after Christoph Schwartz.
Schwarz, Christoph, approximately 1548-1592.Date: [1588/1595]Reference: 524739i