Small clustered human settlement smaller than a town

Drinkers revelling outside a country tavern as a young man is led away by his mother and a drunkard is removed. Etching by J. Wachsmuth, mid 18th century, after D. Teniers.

François Oudot, Viscount of Auxonne, healing and exorcising people in a village square. Etching, 1760, after F. Devosge.

A country village: people feast round a table while others walk home in drunken groups. Etching by P. Chedel after A. Watteau.

A city compared with a village: health care development in Kenya. Colour lithograph by AMREF, ca. 2000.

An old Afghan man sits with a woman and child on the ground smoking a hooka. Wood-engraving after F. Dadd.

A man points to a poster bearing AIDS prevention messages in a village in Venezuela with a church at the centre; an AIDS prevention advertisement supported by OPL-SIDA and the Office of Panamerican Health. Colour lithograph by Felix Rodriguez, 1992.

Village at Bhagalpur, India. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1787.

A travelling tooth-drawer holding a tooth up in the air to an audience after extracting it from a howling patient who is seated next to him in a carriage. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux.

Sarawak: a tribal village by the Tinjar River. Photograph.

The village of Bolsheretsk in Kamchatka, with some of its inhabitants . Engraving by P. Benazech, 1784, after J. Webber.

A travelling tooth-drawer in a carriage extracting a tooth from a patient in front of a village audience. Lithograph.

1 print : etching, with plate tone, printed in brown ; image and lettering 23.5 x 28.4 cm

A village in Flanders: houses by a river, with people, horses and waggons. Etching by W.W. Ryland, 1764, after J. Brueghel the elder.

1 print : wood-engraving ; image 23.8 x 30.4 cm

Men and women smoking and drinking outside a country tavern. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after G. Tilborgh.

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Villages

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A village in Flanders: houses by a river, with people, horses and waggons. Etching by W.W. Ryland, 1764, after J. Brueghel the elder.

An old Afghan man sits with a woman and child on the ground smoking a hooka. Wood-engraving after F. Dadd.

Men and women smoking and drinking outside a country tavern. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after G. Tilborgh.

François Oudot, Viscount of Auxonne, healing and exorcising people in a village square. Etching, 1760, after F. Devosge.

Drinkers revelling outside a country tavern as a young man is led away by his mother and a drunkard is removed. Etching by J. Wachsmuth, mid 18th century, after D. Teniers.

Villages

Images from the collections

Images referencing Villages

Works from the collections

A village in Flanders: houses by a river, with people, horses and waggons. Etching by W.W. Ryland, 1764, after J. Brueghel the elder.

An old Afghan man sits with a woman and child on the ground smoking a hooka. Wood-engraving after F. Dadd.

Men and women smoking and drinking outside a country tavern. Etching by J. Taylor (?), c. 1800, after G. Tilborgh.

François Oudot, Viscount of Auxonne, healing and exorcising people in a village square. Etching, 1760, after F. Devosge.

Drinkers revelling outside a country tavern as a young man is led away by his mother and a drunkard is removed. Etching by J. Wachsmuth, mid 18th century, after D. Teniers.

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