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Ale

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  • Elinour Rummin, an English ale-wife, with a tankard in each hand. Engraving with letterpress, 1813 1624.
  • Elinour Rummin, a well known landlady of an ale-house. Line engraving.
  • Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors in a storeroom full of casks of ale. Wood-engraving, 1847.
  • Six fashionable young men carousing round a table as a serving man opens another bottle of ale. Engraving, c. 1796.
  • A British sailor sitting contentedly with a tankard of ale. Aquatint with etching, c. 1781.
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    A British sailor sitting contentedly with a tankard of ale. Aquatint with etching, c. 1781.

    | Date: 4 August 1781 | Reference: 26482i
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    Oinos krithinos. A dissertation concerning the origin and antiquity of barley wine / [Anon].

    Buckler, Benjamin, 1718-1780. | Date: 1750
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    Oniropolus, or dreams interpreter : Being several aphorisms upon the physiognomy of dreams made into verse. Some of which receive a general interpretation: and others of them have respect to the course of the moon in the zodiack. To which is added several physiognomical characters of persons of different humours and inclinations. After which follows the praise of ale. And lastly, the wheel of fortune, or Pithagoras wheel.

    | Date: 1680
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    VVine, beere, ale, and tobacco. Contending for superiority : A dialogue.

    Gallobelgicus | Date: 1630
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    Elinour Rummin, a well known landlady of an ale-house. Line engraving.

    | Reference: 1773i
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