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Snuff

Part of
Smokeless tobacco

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Images from the collections

Images about Snuff

25 images from works
  • Two men at a fireside table taking snuff; remarks on snuff-taking below. Coloured etching, c. 1825.
  • A street scene with a tall man offering snuff to a short, fat man. Coloured etching by W.P., 1827.
  • An old gentleman visitor offering snuff to an old woman at her fireside. Coloured lithograph by J. J. Chalon, c. 1821, after himself.
  • A French physician. Engraving by M. Darly, 1771.
  • Five young women taking snuff. Stipple print after L. Boilly, ca. 1825.
  • A Frenchman in a tobacconist's declares he will take snuff to defy the increasing tax on tobacco. Coloured lithograph after H. Demare, c. 1870.
  • Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.
  • A young gentleman taking snuff. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, c. 1824, after M. W. Sharp.
  • A Frenchman in a tobacconist's declares he will take snuff to defy the increasing tax on tobacco. Coloured lithograph after H. Demare, c. 1870.
  • A French physician. Engraving by M. Darly, 1771.

Works from the collections

22 works

    • Books
    • Online

    Specification of Thomas Smith : medicinal snuff.

    Smith, Thomas. | Date: 1856
    • Pictures

    An old woman with a tankard in one hand taking a pinch of snuff. Coloured engraving, early 19th century.

    | Reference: 24976i
    • Books
    • Online

    Reasons humbly offered by the fair traders and dealers in snuff : against a clause in a bill now depending before your Lordships, entitled, A bill to prevent the mischiefs by manufacturing leaves, or other things, to resemble tobacco; so far as relates to a clause for preventing the abuses in mixing and colouring of snuff.

    | Date: [1716]
    • Pictures

    Three pictures: a Scot and an Indian lean on a barrel; an Asian smokes a long pipe; three characters take snuff. Wood-engravings.

    | Reference: 25020i
    • Pictures

    Five young women taking snuff. Stipple print after L. Boilly, ca. 1825.

    Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845. | Date: 1825 | Reference: 24985i

Related topics

Tobacco Smoking
Smoking
Snuff trays
Smokeless tobacco
Tobacco
Smoking Pipes
Cigars
Fireplaces

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