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Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at the dinner table as a nurse brings steaming food. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.

A pretty barmaid mixing a drink in a glass. Coloured lithograph, c. 1825.

Makers of brass basins and bowls at work in their workshop. Woodcut by J. Amman.

The boiling and testing of opium by Chinese men watched by a European man. Wood-engraving by F. Dadd, c. 1880.

Three very drunken men unaware of "death", as a crowned skeleton, emerging from under the tablecloth. Engraving by S. Natim, c. 1815, after W. Craig.

An African chief smoking a very elaborately carved tobacco-pipe. Process print.

A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving after W. Hogarth.

A man, glass in hand, sits at a table with food and drink. Wood-engraving, late 16th century.

A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1798, after W. Hogarth.

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A man, glass in hand, sits at a table with food and drink. Wood-engraving, late 16th century.

An African chief smoking a very elaborately carved tobacco-pipe. Process print.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at the dinner table as a nurse brings steaming food. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1798, after W. Hogarth.

The boiling and testing of opium by Chinese men watched by a European man. Wood-engraving by F. Dadd, c. 1880.