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Smokable plants

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  • The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.
  • A man blowing out clouds of smoke from a long pipe, with a tobacco plant to his right. Halftone, c. 1890, after a woodcut, c. 1616.
  • Smoking tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Britannia holding a trident in one hand and tobacco leaves in the other. Engraving by Silvester, early 19th century.
  • A black man (Native American?) leans on a barrel while holding a pipe and tobacco leaves. Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
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Catalogue

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    A Scotsman and a Native American man smoking pipes by barrels of tobacco. Coloured engraving.

    | Reference: 25032i
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    Three pictures: two of Indian children with tobacco leaves and pipes by barrels of tobacco; one of a Scot with two barrels. Wood-engravings.

    | Reference: 25023i
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    Three pictures: two men smoking flank a tobacco label and plant; man smoking while leaning on a barrel; a labelled barrel of tobacco. Wood-engravings.

    | Reference: 25030i
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    Three pictures: Indian and Scot with barrel and tobacco plant; tobacco label with crown and buckle; Indian smoking pipe by a barrel. Wood-engravings.

    | Reference: 25029i
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    Tobacco plants (Nicotiana rustica and N. paniculata): flowering and fruiting stem of both species with their respective floral segments.Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1805, after P.Henderson.

    Henderson, Peter, active 1799-1829. | Date: 1 July 1805 | Reference: 18320i
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