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28 images from works
  • A priest taking morning tea with a lady in her boudoir: a maidservant stands in the background. Engraving by Remi Parr after N. Lancret.
  • Two Chinese opium smokers in a booth watched by a woman who fans herself. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at the dinner table as a nurse brings steaming food. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • The west dining hall, Greenwich, in the crypt below the Painted Hall, full of Pensioners eating dinner. Coloured lithograph by W. Bligh Barker after himself.
  • A Dutch man and woman sit at a table in a summer house; he smokes a pipe. Engraving by S. Springsguth, c. 1792, after P.P. Benazech.
  • A man sits by a fireplace lighting his pipe with an ember while a servant girl brings his drink. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after G. Metsu.
  • The Asylum for Female Orphans, Lambeth: the interior of the dining room. Coloured aquatint by Hill, 1808, after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
  • Men playing backgammon outside in an arbor, nearby others smoke and drink. Etching by J. de Visscher after A. van Ostade.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
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    The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

    David Teniers the Younger | Date: [between 1700 and 1799] | Reference: 24726i
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    The English table in history and literature / by Charles Cooper.

    Cooper, Charles, 1844- | Date: [1929]
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    Four Flemish men smoke and drink in a dingy smoke den, a man leans on the wall behind. Engraving by L. Lempereur, late 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

    David Teniers the Younger | Reference: 24723i
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    Men playing backgammon outside in an arbor, nearby others smoke and drink. Etching by J. de Visscher after A. van Ostade.

    Adriaen van Ostade | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 24699i
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    A priest taking morning tea with a lady in her boudoir: a maidservant stands in the background. Engraving by Remi Parr after N. Lancret.

    Nicolas Lancret | Reference: 25252i
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Related topics

Smoking
Tobacco Smoking
Smoking Pipes
Meals
Clay tobacco pipes
Ingestion
Alcohol Drinking
Drinking vessels
Food habits
Smoking paraphernalia

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