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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
  • 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
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  • A love-sick gentleman being advised by another to drink wine: a drinking song. Engraving and etching, 17--.

    • Vincent, Richard, approximately 1701?-1783.
    Reference
    26268i
    • Pictures
  • Four Georgian gentlemen at their club seriously engaged in smoking. Stipple print by H. Bunbury, c. 1794.

    • Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
    Date
    1794
    Reference
    24851i
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  • A man, glass in hand, sits at a table with food and drink. Wood-engraving, late 16th century.

    Reference
    26529i
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  • A king sits drinking at a table surrounded by revelling courtiers and a man about to vomit. Engraving after J. Jordaens, c. 1640.

    • Jordaens, Jacob, 1593-1678.
    Date
    1640
    Reference
    26305i
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  • A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

    • Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
    Date
    1847
    Reference
    25973i
    Part of
    The bottle
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  • Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

    Date
    [approximately 1840?]
    Reference
    26908i
    • Pictures
  • The first verse of a poem entitled, "Rheinweinlied", surrounded by an ornamental design with a large wine glass. Etching, 1842.

    • Claudius, Matthias, 1740-1815
    Date
    1842
    Reference
    26291i
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  • Two men sit drinking and smoking at a tavern table. Engraving by J. Williams, c. 1792, after A. Brouwer.

    • Brouwer, Adriaen, 1605 or 1606-1638.
    Date
    1 February 1792
    Reference
    26803i
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  • Four Flemish men smoke and drink in a dingy smoke den, a man leans on the wall behind. Engraving by L. Lempereur, late 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Reference
    24723i
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  • Boer War: patients outside a military hospital gargling with antiseptic while being watched by three nurses. Halftone, c.1900, after F. de Haenen.

    • Haenen, F. de (Frédéric de), 1853-1928.
    Date
    1900
    Reference
    23529i
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  • 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.

    • Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704.
    Date
    1702
    Reference
    26556i
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  • Members of the Noble Order of Bucks drinking and smoking. Engraving and etching, c. 1756.

    Date
    1756
    Reference
    26274i
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  • A man with glass in hand stands by a window. Engraving by P. Chenu, 1756, after A. van Ostade.

    • Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
    Date
    [1756]
    Reference
    26546i
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  • Three men carousing beneath a mulberry tree, with verses of a song comparing the life of humans to the life of a tree. Etching after I. Cruikshank, 1808.

    • Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?
    Date
    1 March 1808
    Reference
    26292i
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  • Rembrandt, portrayed perhaps as the prodigal son, stands with his arm round a lady (represented by his wife Saskia) by a banquet table and raises his glass. Lithograph after Rembrandt van Rijn.

    • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.
    Reference
    26851i
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  • A man leans out of a tavern window with a glass and cap in hand, others watch from inside. Etching by J. Chérin, mid 18th century, after A. van Ostade.

    • Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
    Reference
    26824i
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  • William Cobbett is joined by six drunkards who applaud his toast of "damnation to the House of Brunswick"; representing British parliamentary reform. Etching by J. Gillray, ca. 1809.

    • Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
    Date
    29 September 1809
    Reference
    26481i
    Part of
    The life of William Cobbett, - written by himself
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  • An old man sits with his arm round a girl and plies her with drink as his wife watches through a window. Engraving by J. Le Bas after D. Teniers.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Reference
    26801i
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  • 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.

    • Brouwer, Adriaen, 1605 or 1606-1638.
    Reference
    26533i
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  • A Dutch country tavern with a drinker being given encouragement, a group by the fire and a serving man chalking up orders. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1836, after D. Teniers.

    • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
    Date
    1836
    Reference
    27008i
    Part of
    Vorzüglichsten Gemälde der königlichen Galerie in Dresden.
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  • A man leans back from a table holding a pipe in one hand and a glass in the other. Reproduction of a pen and ink drawing by E. Leroux.

    • Leroux, Eugène, 1807-1863.
    Reference
    24855i
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  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1798, after W. Hogarth.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    1 April 1798
    Reference
    26454i
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  • A woman and man sit at a table drinking as the man raises the bottle in his right hand. Lithograph, 19th century.

    Reference
    26796i
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