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  • A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.
  • A young couple sit together at a table, the man has his leg across the woman's knees and a glass of wine in his hand: they are laughing and reading by candlelight. Engraving by J. Houbraken after C. Troost.
  • Five men drinking and smoking round a table in a large open room. Mezzotint after a painting by A. van Ostade, 1665.
  • Men drinking, vomiting and collapsing around a tavern table. Etching by J. Le Poutre, 17th century, after himself.
  • A fat parson with large glass of port in hand is watched by a thin, naked man representing care (worry), and tells him to be gone. Coloured etching after G. Woodward, 1796.
  • A man with a glass of spirits; representing the sense of taste. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.
  • A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • A labourer asks a gentleman for his wages so that he may get drunk; both represented as dwarfs. Coloured etching after M. Engelbrecht, 1715.
  • Three episodes about the further adventures of Mr. Rapp's party guests after much overindulgence. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: two nurses have lunch at a patisserie, the others have a drunken meal at the hospital. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • 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.
  • A man with tankard in hand leans by a window. Engraving by P. Chenu, 1756, after A. van Ostade.
  • A man lies drunk in his chair, his last glass of drink fallen from his hand. Lithograph by Lamy, c. 1860, after Villain.
  • A man sits at a table with playing cards and drink in hand, his wife threatens him as his playing partner makes his departure. Engraving by F. Basan after Dumesnil, junior.
  • 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.
  • Three men indoors round an inn table with drink, tobacco pipes and cards. Engraving by F. Basan after A. van Ostade.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • The fortunes of Peter Pickle, Esquire, whose fashionable lifestyle ends with a drink problem. Etching by R. Seymour, 1829.
  • The effects of medicine and wine-drinking compared. Ink drawing, 18--.
  • A busy gin palace bar with customers buying drinks. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
  • The interior of a tavern with men smoking and drinking round the fireplace. Etching by J. Taylor, c. 1800, after A. van Ostade.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
  • Mr. Lambkin enjoying some wine in the company of friends. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • A drunk young man vomiting outside a social gathering. Colour lithograph for Nationaal Instituut voor Gezondheidsbevordering en Ziektepreventie, ca. 2000.
  • Negligence and idleness represented as a dishevelled woman surrounded by people gambling, drinking, fighting etc. Engraving attributed to P. Galle.
  • A Dutch tavern interior with three men smoking and drinking in the foreground. Engraving by J. Beauvarlet, 1755, after A. van Ostade.
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • Men drinking and smoking outside a house: drunken men seize women.. Engraving after S. Freudeberg.
  • A nurse carrying a bowl and candle-stick. Wood engraving by J. Orrin Smith after J. Kenny Meadows, 1840.