Agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in genus nicotiana

Two Greenwich Pensioners sitting in the garden of a tavern, near the Hospital, a woman behind listening to them, another Pensioner in the distance on the right. Mezzotint, 1791.

Men smoking, drinking and singing in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after E. van Heemskerk.

A Greenwich pensioner, filling a pipe with tobacco, a tankard of ale at his elbow. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.

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.

The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.

Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.

A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.

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.

Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.

Smoking tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0002412: A boy holding a cigar, Thailand

A treatise on the culture of the tobacco plant; with the manner in which it is usually cured . Adapted to northern climates, and designed for the use of the landholders of Great-Britain, and Ireland. By Jonathan Carver, Esq. author of Travels through the interior parts of North-America.

A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).

1 print : engraving ; image 29.6 x 39.5 cm

Paton's main research interests were in underwater physiology, histamine, synaptic transmission, drug dependence, anaesthetic mechanisms, allergy electron microscopy and the history of science, particularly medical science.

Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist

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M0002412: A boy holding a cigar, Thailand

A treatise on the culture of the tobacco plant; with the manner in which it is usually cured . Adapted to northern climates, and designed for the use of the landholders of Great-Britain, and Ireland. By Jonathan Carver, Esq. author of Travels through the interior parts of North-America.

A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).

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.

Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist

Tobacco

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M0002412: A boy holding a cigar, Thailand

A treatise on the culture of the tobacco plant; with the manner in which it is usually cured . Adapted to northern climates, and designed for the use of the landholders of Great-Britain, and Ireland. By Jonathan Carver, Esq. author of Travels through the interior parts of North-America.

A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).

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.

Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist

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