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Smokeless tobacco

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Images referencing Smokeless tobacco

10 images from works
  • Two men at a fireside table taking snuff; remarks on snuff-taking below. Coloured etching, c. 1825.
  • An old gentleman visitor offering snuff to an old woman at her fireside. Coloured lithograph by J. J. Chalon, c. 1821, after himself.
  • 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.
  • Two men at a fireside table taking snuff; remarks on snuff-taking below. Coloured etching, c. 1825.
  • A fat man sits at his fireside taking snuff with a smoking pipe and drink by his side. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1822, after J. Gillray.
  • An old gentleman visitor offering snuff to an old woman at her fireside. Coloured lithograph by J. J. Chalon, c. 1821, after himself.
  • A pretty girl and an old woman both taking snuff. Coloured stipple engraving after L. Boilly, ca. 1827.
  • 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.
  • Different types of snuff takers. Coloured lithograph by W. Clerk after J. J. Grandville.

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    A pretty girl and an old woman both taking snuff. Coloured stipple engraving after L. Boilly, ca. 1827.

    Louis-Léopold Boilly | Date: August 1827 | Reference: 24987i
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    A fat man sits at his fireside taking snuff with a smoking pipe and drink by his side. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1822, after J. Gillray.

    James Gillray | Date: 25 January 1822 | Reference: 24978i
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    An old gentleman visitor offering snuff to an old woman at her fireside. Coloured lithograph by J. J. Chalon, c. 1821, after himself.

    John James Chalon | Date: 15 May 1821 | Reference: 24977i
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    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.

    Charles Jameson Grant | Date: 1 January 1833 | Reference: 24988i
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    Different types of snuff takers. Coloured lithograph by W. Clerk after J. J. Grandville.

    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville | Reference: 24989i
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Related topics

Snuff
Tobacco Smoking
Snuff trays
Fireplaces

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