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Children playing in their nursery: performing at and attending the theatre. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.
Havers, Alice, 1850-1890.Date: 1890Reference: 16201i- Pictures
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A popular acrobatics performance. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.Reference: 12152iPart of: Bird's-eye views of modern society- Books
Gale's Cabinet of knowledge; or miscellaneous recreations: containing moral and philosophical essays ... propositions ... maxims ... experiments ... card deceptions, etc / [J. Gale].
Gale, J. (Joseph), 1931-Date: 1808- Pictures
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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- Books
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A rich cabinet with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of naturall and artificiall conclusions : as also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water, and fire-works of service, for sea and shore : whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks / collected by J.W. a lover of artificial conclusions.
White, John, -1671Date: 1668- Pictures
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Men playing backgammon outside in an arbor, nearby others smoke and drink. Etching by J. de Visscher after A. van Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 24699i- Ephemera
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Carter's Little Liver Pills.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Pictures
An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, ca. 1804, after C. Gold.
Gold, Charles, Captain.Date: 1 November 1804Reference: 24878i- Pictures
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A drunken scene in a dancing hall with a sly customer eyeing a girl. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26037iPart of: The drunkard's children- Pictures
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Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths with drums, whips, etc: a mounted policeman moves through the throng. Wood engraving.
Reference: 33084i- Ephemera
Entertainment ephemera. Box 1.
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Bartholomew Fair, London: scene of night-time revelry at the fair in Smithfield, outside St Bartholomew's Hospital. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after A. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1808.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1 February 1808Reference: 22172i- Pictures
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A man sits drinking at a table and is entertained by a fiddler as a woman holds his music open. Etching by D. Deuchar, 18th century, after A. van Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Reference: 26538i- Pictures
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Children playing at creating the effect of a wet day with bellows, watering-can and an umbrella. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.
Havers, Alice, 1850-1890.Date: 1890Reference: 16197i- Pictures
Children watching a magic lantern show. Coloured lithograph.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 12082iPart of: Spooner's protean views- Pictures
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Four jovial gentlemen in a tavern, one holds a bowl to the face of his drunk companion. Mezzotint by Maucourt, c. 1764, after himself.
Maucourt, Charles, -1768.Date: 13 August 1764Reference: 26886i- Books
Lockdown selfbeing and wellcare : by Wilfrid Wood.
Wood, WilfridDate: 2021- Pictures
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Crowds at Greenwich Fair, watching performers in booths, eating, etc.: the twin domes of Greenwich Hospital are visible in the background. Wood engraving by [I.B.] after Findlay.
Reference: 33083i- Pictures
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A man plays the fiddle at a tavern table as another sings and others listen. Engraving by M. Liart, c. 1783, after A. van Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: 25 March 1783Reference: 26804i- Pictures
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Six figures passing the time with various entertainments. Mezzotint by J. Wilson, 1771, after G.M. Kraus.
Kraus, Georg Melchior, 1737-1806.Date: 1st. February 1771Reference: 131i- Pictures
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A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: in the afternoon, nurses massage a patient, apply electrical muscle stimulation, knit and chat. Colour and coloured lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965.Date: 1916Reference: 24120i- Pictures
Burma: courtly ceremonies, sports and amusements. Gouache paintings.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 47215i- Books
Hospital Radio Maidstone / by Patrick Boniface.
Boniface, Patrick.Date: 1997- Pictures
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An Englishman and Asian man seated in a pavilion playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, c. 1804, after C. Gold.
Gold, Charles, Captain.Date: 1 November 1804Reference: 25290i- Books
An empathetic sketchbook zine : activities. Covid-19 edition / Liza Rein.
Rein, LizaDate: 2020