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Entertaining

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  • 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.
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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.

    Keene, Charles, 1823-1891. | Date: 1874 | Reference: 15667i
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    Local people gathered in a Scottish smithy for food and drink. Etching by W. Lizars, 18--.

    Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859. | Reference: 26934i
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    Mr. Lambkin at a party with some unsavoury looking company. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | 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.

    Spencer, Edward, 1844-1910. | Date: [1913]
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    Novel ways of entertaining / by Florence Hull Winterburn and others.

    Winterburn, Florence Hull, 1858- | Date: 1914
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