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Tobacco

Images

  • 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.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts
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    M0002412: A boy holding a cigar, Thailand

    | Date: 23 October 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/20/75
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    To the supreme authority of this nation, the Commons of England assembled in Parliament : The humble petition of the merchants and others of the cities of London and Bristoll.

    | Date: [1650]
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    A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).

    Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685. | Reference: 24714i
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    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.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Date: [between 1700 and 1799] | Reference: 24726i
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    The complaint of many free-holders, farmer, and others, of the Common-wealth of England : Against the unlawfull planting of English tobacco. With an act of Parliament prohibiting the same.

    Read, Robert, active 1653-1656 | Date: [1653]
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