Person who serves usually alcoholic beverages behind the bar in a licensed establishment

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Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.

A lank old man at a bar asks a plump barmaid for a glass of gin. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

A pretty barmaid mixing a drink in a glass. Coloured lithograph, c. 1825.

Elinour Rummin, an English ale-wife, with a tankard in each hand. Engraving with letterpress, 1813 1624.

A doctor with a garland of pill boxes, bottles and a clyster pipe; a publican with pipes, different bottles and a punch bowl. Etching after T. Rowlandson.

An obliging barmaid drawing beer. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1833.

A busy gin palace bar with customers buying drinks. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.

A drunken party with sailors and their women drinking, smoking, and dancing wildly as a band plays. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.

A Dutch country tavern with six men drinking and smoking at a table and others by the bar. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1836, after A. van Ostade, 1663.

Working girls : fiction, sexuality, and modernity / Katherine Mullin.

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Bartenders

Images from the collections

Images about Bartenders

Works from the collections

Working girls : fiction, sexuality, and modernity / Katherine Mullin.

Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.

A busy gin palace bar with customers buying drinks. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.

A pretty barmaid mixing a drink in a glass. Coloured lithograph, c. 1825.

An obliging barmaid drawing beer. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1833.

Bartenders

Images from the collections

Images about Bartenders

Works from the collections

Working girls : fiction, sexuality, and modernity / Katherine Mullin.

Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.

A busy gin palace bar with customers buying drinks. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.

A pretty barmaid mixing a drink in a glass. Coloured lithograph, c. 1825.

An obliging barmaid drawing beer. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1833.

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