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Beer

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Malt liquors

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Images from the collections

Images about Beer

33 images from works
  • The interior and exterior of a working brewhouse. Engraving, c. 1747.
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • A drunkard sits on a barrel spilling drink from a jug and glass. Etching by R. Blyth after P. J. de Loutherbourg.
  • Two women are arguing in the street at Seven Dials in London watched by a crowd. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • A multiple-choice question about the harmful effects of beer advertising a quiz on alcohol abuse. Colour lithograph by Nationaal Instituut voor Gezondheidsbevordering en Ziektepreventie, 2000.
  • "Blind Granny" holding a tankard of beer. Coloured engraving.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.
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Works from the collections

101 works

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    Twenty-ninth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

    Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. | Date: 1882
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    Brewing

    | Date: c. 1800 | Reference: MS.1354
    • Books
    • Online

    Zosimi Panopolitani De zythorum confectione fragmentum nunc primum graece ac latine editum : accedit historia zythorum sive cerevisiarum quarum apud veteres mentio fit / scripsit D. Christianus Gottfridus Gruner.

    | Date: 1814
    • Books

    On beer and brewing techniques in ancient Mesopotamia : according to the XXIIIrd tablet of the series ḪAR.r a = ḫubullu / by Louis F. Hartman and A. L. Oppenheim.

    Hartman, Louis Francis, 1901-1970. | Date: 1950
    • Ephemera

    Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 9.

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Related topics

Brewing
Alcohol Drinking
Breweries
Alcoholic Beverages
Tankards
United Kingdom
Bars (Drinking establishments)
Liquors
Wine
Alcohol industry

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