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Tobacco smoke

Images

  • A man with an extra large head exhales smoke from an enormous cigar. Coloured lithograph, c. 1880, after T. Worth.
  • 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.
  • A man sits smoking by a fireplace with a jug on the floor beside him. Engraving, c. 1825.
  • Englishmen smoking in a city street, thereby causing a nuisance to women. Etching.
  • Sir Walter Raleigh smoking a pipe and being doused by a servant who thinks he's on fire. Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    Three men sit smoking at a barrel-table in a dingy smoke-filled den, others play cards. Engraving by R. Cooper, c. 1813, after J.(?) W. Strutt after D. Teniers the younger.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Date: 1 November 1813 | Reference: 24833i
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    • Online

    A man sits smoking by a fireplace with a jug on the floor beside him. Engraving, c. 1825.

    | Date: 1 September 1825 | Reference: 24845i
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    Four Georgian gentlemen at their club seriously engaged in smoking. Stipple print by H. Bunbury, c. 1794.

    | Date: 1794 | Reference: 24851i
    • Books

    The Constituents of tobacco smoke : an annotated bibliography / edited by H.R. Bentley & E.G.N. Berry.

    | Date: 1959]
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    Sir Walter Raleigh smoking a pipe and being doused by a servant who thinks he's on fire. Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.

    | Reference: 25007i
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