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Entertaining

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Images referencing Entertaining

19 images from works
  • Five elderly people sit at a table drinking port as one man tells a story. Etching, c. 1795.
  • Three episodes about the fate of Mr. Rapp's party guests, after an evening of overindulgence. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • Mr. Lambkin at a party with some unsavoury looking company. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
  • The interior of a tavern with men and women carousing at a table and children on the floor. Mezzotint, early 19th century, after A. van Ostade.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • A man commenting on the beauty of women at a ball, his friend (a dentist) implies that the perfection of their smiles is due to him. Wood engraving after C. Keene, c.1882.
  • A drunken party with sailors and their women drinking, smoking, and dancing wildly as a band plays. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
  • A discussion between a man and woman at a party (above) and a patient asking a doctor if it is necessary for him to have an operation (below). Process print after W. Lunt, 1913.
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Works from the collections

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    A tired and drunk doctor attending a patient, after being called away from a bridge game at a social event. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1874.

    Charles Keene | Date: 1874 | Reference: 15667i
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    Local people gathered in a Scottish smithy for food and drink. Etching by W. Lizars, 18--.

    William Home Lizars | Reference: 26934i
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    Mr. Lambkin at a party with some unsavoury looking company. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.

    George Cruikshank | Reference: 12127i
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    Cakes & ale : a dissertation on banquets, interspersed with various recipes, more or less original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious / by Edward Spencer.

    Edward Spencer Mott | Date: [1913]
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    Novel ways of entertaining / by Florence Hull Winterburn and others.

    Florence Hull Winterburn | Date: 1914
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Related topics

Alcohol Drinking
Alcoholism
Alcoholics
Alcoholic Beverages
Bowls (Tableware)
Candles
Drinking vessels
Drinking glasses
Clay tobacco pipes
Tobacco Smoking

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