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Alcoholic beverage industry

Images

  • The interior and exterior of a working brewhouse. Engraving, c. 1747.
  • Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.
  • A Chilean wine label illustrated with a large house and vineyard. Engraving, 19th century.
  • Customers drink and smoke in a spirit shop in South Africa. Wood engraving, c. 1877.
  • The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.
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Catalogue

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    An appeal to the people for the suppression of the liquor traffic : a prize essay / by Rev. H.D. Kitchel.

    Kitchel, Henry Denison, 1812-1895. | Date: 1848
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    John Bull making hop-tea in front of a hop grower and his workers; representing adulteration of beer by brewers. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1890, after himself.

    Merry, Tom, 1852-1902. | Date: 11 October 1890 | Reference: 25922i
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    An appeal to the landholders concerning the reasonableness and general benefit of an excise upon tobacco and wine.

    | Date: 1733
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    A vindication of the conduct of the Ministry, in the scheme of the excise on wine and tobacco, proposed last sessions of Parliament. With a general examination of the reasons which determined the said ministry to it; the consequences and events it would have had.

    | Date: 1734
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    Hop pickers at work. Wood-engraving, c. 1842 (?).

    | Date: 1842 | Reference: 25796i
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