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Images from the collections

Images about Smoking

343 images from works
  • 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.
  • Two boys posing with cigarettes. Photographic postcard by A. Caggiano, 190-.
  • James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1878.
  • A woman smoking a pipe and holding a drinking glass. Etching.
  • Two Malay men and a woman sit and recline on the floor smoking opium. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • Five men gather round a table to play cards, drink and smoke in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.
  • Egypt: a street with a man smoking and riding a camel. Chromolithograph after C. F. H. Werner, 1873.
  • Customers drink and smoke in a spirit shop in South Africa. Wood engraving, c. 1877.
  • A man with an extra large head exhales smoke from an enormous cigar. Coloured lithograph, c. 1880, after T. Worth.
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Works from the collections

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    A healthy eating guide : cholesterol / Tesco Stores Ltd.

    Tesco | Date: [1994?]
    • Pictures
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    Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.

    | Reference: 43442i
    • Books

    A balanced diet / Tesco.

    Tesco | Date: [1991?]
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    • Online

    Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

    James Parton | Date: [1888]
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    Dying for a smoke.

    | Date: 1967
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Related topics

Tobacco Smoking
Smoking Pipes
Alcohol Drinking
Nicotiana
Smoking Cessation
Smoking paraphernalia
United Kingdom
Tobacco
Clay tobacco pipes
Costume

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