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  • A young employee is tempted by a drink offered by his fellow workers. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • The supposed benefits of beer are illusory. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • A great Temperance festival in the Corn-Exchange, Cork, in full swing. Wood-engraving after J. McDonald, 1843.
  • A reformed and fashionable gentleman exits from the church with his beautiful bride. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • A doctor advising his patient to give up life's pleasures - though not to go so far as to get married. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1880.
  • An intoxicated man drinking beer; advertising Blauwe Week against alcohol. Lithograph (?), 1936, after A. van Dobbenburgh, 1935.
  • "It would be simply impossible for a man who drinks to be a scout : keep off the liquor from the very first ; make up your mind to have nothing to do with it." : from "Scouting for boys." / Lt. Gen. Sir Robert baden-Powell ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • Bovril : those who go down to the sea in ships have perhaps more need for Bovril than any other class of men / [Bovril Limited].
  • Head of an intoxicated man raging against his wife, showing a reason for a week of opposition to alcohol. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1923.
  • Tongues of fire descend on the apostles at Pentecost. Lithograph.
  • The life & age of man : shewing the different stages of man's life from the cradle to the grave : wherein all Christians may know their frail nature, and the miseries that attend a sinful life, set forth in a poem.
  • The Sheffield election of 1868: (left) two men play cards and drink in a warm pub; (right) two women (one with a baby) beg and cower in a snowy street. Transfer lithograph, 1868.
  • A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.
  • The spider and fly : the advertiser takes this opportunity of informing his friends and a discerning public, that he continues the trade of making drunkards, paupers, thieves, beggars, adulterers, and murderers, on the most reasonable terms, and without notice.
  • The melancholy temperament: an anxious woman clasps her hands as an agitated man lies on the ground. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
  • The "American Pledge" for total abstinence surrounded by an ornate border. Lithograph, c. 1860 (?).
  • Drunkenly gazing at the chin of his daughter, Lot moves amorously towards her. Mezzotint by R. Dunkarton, 1787, after A. de Gelder.
  • A group of drinkers are disrupted by a water pump telling them to take only "the pledge". Etching, c. 1844, after G. Cruikshank.
  • Independent Order of Rechabites : the abstainers' Friendly Society ... : [Calendar] 1938.
  • Bar-chart indicating the effects of drinking alcoholic drinks on children's school results in Vienna. Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • "In the light of modern science alcohol stands condemned as the greatest co-operating factor for the production of damaged lives." / Dr. Courtenay C. Weeks, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • Alcoholism in Russia: brawling and starvation as the results of drinking alcoholic drinks, contrasted with prosperity resulting from abstinence from alcohol. Colour lithograph by T. Nemkova, 1990.
  • Mr. Lambkin drunkenly dancing the polka and knocking over a tray of coffee, while his loved one looks on in a dismayed manner. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Two drunken soldiers ask an apothecary for some 'eau de vie' - some brandy. Coloured lithograph by J. Rigo.
  • A woman and her three children abstaining from alcohol; representing the Swiss league of women abstainers. Colour lithograph after M. Goetz, 1905 (?).
  • "All who are visionaries dream of a City Beautiful, but no man in his right senses would dream of putting a pub in it." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • A drunken Doctor Drainbarrel is placed in a wheelbarrow and carted home from the inn. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • Parents' drinking weakens children's vitality : comparison of children in 50 abstaining and 59 drinking families in one village in Finland ... drink menaces vigor and lives of children.
  • A man walking with the posture of a drunkard. Drawing with wash, c. 1789.
  • A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.