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  • The interior of a tavern with men smoking and drinking by a barrel table and playing cards by the fire. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after D. Teniers.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Reference
    26831i
    • Pictures
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  • 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.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Date
    1 November 1813
    Reference
    24833i
    • Pictures
  • Royal Baths, York Hotel, Stocker & Longmore's New Baths, York Terrace, Sidmouth, Devon. Tinted aquatint.

    Date
    20 June 1820
    Reference
    22805i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).

    • Limner, Luke, 1822-1912.
    Date
    [1847]
    Reference
    35846i
    • Pictures
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  • Two men play cards at a table as others watch, smoke and drink in a dingy smoke den. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1771, after D. Teniers the younger.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Date
    Publish'd 23 Dec.r 1771
    Reference
    24736i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • 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.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Date
    [between 1700 and 1799]
    Reference
    24726i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A man sits on a stool smoking a pipe, behind a man relieves himself against the wall. Engraving by P. Chenu, 1754, after D. Teniers.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Date
    [1754]
    Reference
    24719i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Public drinking in the early modern world : voices from the tavern, 1500-1800 / general editor: Thomas E. Brennan.

    • Brennan, Thomas.
    Date
    2011
    • Books
  • Malvern, Great Malvern, Worcestershire: plan of town. Lithograph.

    Reference
    18281i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.

    • Le Poutre, Jean-A., active 1680.
    Reference
    26311i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • 20th century blues / GMFA, Gay Men Fighting AIDS.

    • Gay Men Fighting AIDS (Organization)
    Date
    1998
    • Ephemera
  • Men of various nationalities surround a gentleman dressed in striped breeches holding a cane, as another man wearing a fez snoozes beside a glazed door marked 'conference'. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 1884.

    • Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.
    Date
    June 7 1884
    Reference
    627431i
    • Pictures
  • Two peasants in a dingy ale-house; one sleeps on a bench and the other urinates in a bucket. Engraving by J. Groensveld after A. Brouwer.

    • Brouwer, Adriaen, 1605 or 1606-1638.
    Date
    [16--?]
    Reference
    26797i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • "All who are visionaries dream of a City Beautiful, but no man in his right senses would dream of putting a pub in it." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.

    • Mitchell, Edward Rosslyn, 1879-1965
    Date
    [Between 1925 and 1935?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online
  • A drunken Doctor Drainbarrel is placed in a wheelbarrow and carted home from the inn. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.

    • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
    Date
    1810
    Reference
    18135i
    Part of
    Tegg's caricatures.
    • Pictures
  • The diary of Robert Hooke, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., 1672-1680 : transcribed from the original in the possession of the Corporation of the city of London (Guildhall library) / edited by Henry W. Robinson ... and Walter Adams ... ; with a foreword by Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins.

    • Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.
    Date
    1935
    • Books
  • Panoramic view of Baden, Germany. Line engraving by Oeder after C. Frommel.

    • Frommel, Carl Ludwig, 1789-1863.
    Reference
    15426i
    • Pictures
  • The Sheffield election of 1868: (left) two men play cards and drink in a warm pub; (right) two women (one with a baby) beg and cower in a snowy street. Transfer lithograph, 1868.

    Date
    1860
    Reference
    26050i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Five men sit indoors smoking and drinking, others play cards. Engraving, mid-19th century, by W. French after D. Teniers.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Reference
    24834i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • 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.

    • Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
    Reference
    24705i
    • Pictures
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  • The Grassmarket with Heriot's Hospital in the background, Edinburgh, Scotland. Etching by G. Aikman, 1841, after Storer.

    • Storer, James, 1771-1853.
    Date
    July 1841
    Reference
    17157i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A society lunch with patrons playing dice, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by R. Leitner, mid-19th century, after D. Teniers.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Reference
    25445i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • An innkeeper adds water to his wine as his customer, a baker, kisses the landlady. Engraving by J. Lagniet, ca. 1663.

    • Lagniet, Jacques, 1600-1675.
    Date
    [approximately 1663]
    Reference
    25927i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • People drinking in a gin palace; people consuming alcoholic drinks falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree. Line block (?) after G. Cruikshank, 1842.

    • Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
    Date
    [between 1800 and 1899]
    Reference
    26293i
    • Pictures
  • A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion. Aquatint by J. Sayer, 1805.

    • Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
    Date
    26 June 1805
    Reference
    25936i
    • Pictures
    • Online
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