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  • 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
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  • Leonhard Bűchner, a German landlord, with wine glass in hand. Engraving by T. Hirschmann, 1683, after himself.

    • Hirschmann, Thomas, active 1670-1691.
    Date
    1683
    Reference
    26509i
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  • A woman inn-keeper and her cook stand outside the hotel watching the arrival of a coach in the high street. Coloured lithograph by A.J.L. Jazet, 1843.

    • Jazet, Alexandre Jean Louis, 1814-
    Date
    [1843]
    Reference
    30683i
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  • Women eject a drunk and publican from a bar in a crusade against drunkenness. Wood-engraving by A. Joliet, c. 1875, after Castelli.

    • Castelli.
    Date
    1875
    Reference
    26056i
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  • A wealthy family arriving at a hotel and being greeted by the proprietor. Engraving.

    Reference
    22256i
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  • An inn-keeper, mistaken by Don Quixote for a knight, humours the Don by dubbing him a knight errant. Line engraving by J. Mynde, 1725, after C.A. Coypel.

    • Coypel, Charles-Antoine, 1694-1752.
    Date
    [1725?]
    Reference
    3006306i
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  • Joseph Richardson takes the liberty to inform his friends that he has taken the Packhorse, Turnham Green, where they may depend on being accommodated with the best of liquors &c. : n.b. an ordinary at Sundays at 2.

    • Richardson, Joseph.
    Date
    [between 1700 and 1799?]
    • Ephemera
  • Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.

    Date
    1765
    Reference
    26888i
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  • Policemen apprehend a pickpocket taking a license from a publican; representing the value to the government of publicans' licenses. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1890, after himself.

    • Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.
    Date
    24 May 1890
    Reference
    26065i
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  • A man destroys his entire wine stock to the horror of his wife. Wood-engraving by J. Johnston, c. 1864, after G. Cruikshank.

    • Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
    Date
    1864
    Reference
    26046i
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  • No trust-- no mistrust : since now your liquors are so rich, and I no cause to borrow, I'll live upon my cash to-day, and draw again tomorrow.

    Date
    [between 1800 and 1899?]
    • Ephemera
  • An innkeeper composed of wine bottles and grapes. Engraving, c. 1660 (?).

    Date
    1660
    Reference
    25750i
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  • An innkeeper's wife and daughter taking care of Don Quixote's wounds and injuries after being beaten. Engraving after W. Hogarth after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.

    • Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
    Reference
    22041i
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  • A busy gin palace bar with customers buying drinks. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.

    • Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
    Date
    [1842]
    Reference
    26470i
    Part of
    The Drunkard
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  • Peasants sitting, smoking, outside an inn as the hostess pours a glass of ale. Engraving by J. Suyderhoff after A. van Ostade.

    • Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.
    Reference
    24702i
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  • A busy drinking scene outside a tavern with the landlord taking a drink order from a new customer. Engraving by C. Du Bosc after J. Laguerre.

    • Laguerre, John, approximately 1702-1748.
    Reference
    26885i
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  • Oswald Beutelschmidt, an innkeeper holding a tankard and a dish of food. Engraving by J.F. Leonart, 1671.

    • Leonart, Johann Friedrich, approximately 1633-approximately 1680.
    Date
    1671
    Reference
    26484i
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  • Interior of a posada with men smoking and playing cards as others and a mule rest nearby. Coloured lithograph after J. F. Lewis, 1836.

    • Lewis, John Frederick, 1804-1876.
    Date
    1836
    Reference
    24974i
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  • A drunk man having dinner at an inn: he vomits and is condemned by a gentleman. Engraving by J. Lagniet, ca. 1657.

    • Lagniet, Jacques, 1600-1675.
    Date
    [1657?]
    Reference
    2490821i
    • Pictures
  • The manager of a hotel discusses the extermination of bedbugs with a lady. Wood engraving by 'Henriot' (H. Maigrot).

    • Henriot, 1857-1933.
    Reference
    16948i
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  • Elinour Rummin, an English ale-wife, with a tankard in each hand. Engraving with letterpress, 1813 1624.

    Date
    10 September 1813
    Reference
    26488i
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