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"Morayland" : prize song / by Frank Sutherland (Uncle Peter).

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

Mr. Lambkin in an old bachelors' club, completely recovered from his illness and contemplating the errors of his ways. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.

Registration certificate No. 44984/26... / The Kennel Club.

A society lunch with patrons playing dice, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by R. Leitner, mid-19th century, after D. Teniers.

Surgeons and physicians of Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London, with views of the building. Colour lithograph by M. & N. Hanhart after Beynon & Company.

A gathering at Joshua Reynolds's house: Oliver Goldsmith and Edmund Burke among the company. Stipple engraving by W. Walker, 1848, after J.E. Doyle.

A meeting of a Calves-Head Club for Whig gentlemen who celebrate the execution of King Charles I. Engraving, 1734.

A doctor reading the 'Lancet' in a gentleman's club: another member states it is boring, and suggests they play billiards which the doctor would find more boring. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1883.

Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club. Coloured aquatint by John Caspar Ziegler after George Moutard Woodward, published by William Holland, 1798.

Malaya: Chinese merchants grouped outside their club house on Penang Island. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1881.

Four Georgian gentlemen at their club seriously engaged in smoking. Stipple print by H. Bunbury, c. 1794.

Members of an English country club gathered together in a room, some are talking, others drinking, and food is being brought in on trays. Stipple engraving after H.W. Bunbury.

Annual outing of the employees of Burroughs Wellcome & Co., Dartford, July 14th, 1900.

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Clubs

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Images about Clubs

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Surgeons and physicians of Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London, with views of the building. Colour lithograph by M. & N. Hanhart after Beynon & Company.

Four Georgian gentlemen at their club seriously engaged in smoking. Stipple print by H. Bunbury, c. 1794.

Members of an English country club gathered together in a room, some are talking, others drinking, and food is being brought in on trays. Stipple engraving after H.W. Bunbury.

A society lunch with patrons playing dice, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by R. Leitner, mid-19th century, after D. Teniers.

Annual outing of the employees of Burroughs Wellcome & Co., Dartford, July 14th, 1900.

Clubs

Images from the collections

Images about Clubs

Works from the collections

Surgeons and physicians of Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London, with views of the building. Colour lithograph by M. & N. Hanhart after Beynon & Company.

Four Georgian gentlemen at their club seriously engaged in smoking. Stipple print by H. Bunbury, c. 1794.

Members of an English country club gathered together in a room, some are talking, others drinking, and food is being brought in on trays. Stipple engraving after H.W. Bunbury.

A society lunch with patrons playing dice, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by R. Leitner, mid-19th century, after D. Teniers.

Annual outing of the employees of Burroughs Wellcome & Co., Dartford, July 14th, 1900.

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