Alcohol Collection

Gin Lane, 1751. Artist: William Hogarth
Gin Lane, 1751.The scene is the St Giles slums. A child falls to its death from the arms of its drunk mother who sits with ulcerated legs. A skeletal figure holds an empty glass

Gin Lane (Beer Street and Gin Lane 2), 1751. Artist: Hogarth, William (1697-1764)
Gin Lane (Beer Street and Gin Lane 2), 1751. From a private collection

Beer Street, 1751. Artist: William Hogarth
Beer Street, 1751. Working people enjoying a tankard of beer outside the Barley Mow public house. The figures include two women with baskets of fish and a butcher holding a joint of meat

The Man with the Load of Mischief, 18th century, (1943). Creator: William Hogarth
The Man with the Load of Mischief, 18th century, (1943). A man with a chain and padlock round his neck, carrying a " load of mischief" : a woman holding a glass of gin rides on his back

Bitter Campari, 1921. Private Collection

No! Crayfish require these drinks!, Swedish anti-Prohibition poster, 1922
No! Crayfish require these drinks!. Swedish anti-Prohibition poster, 1922. Private Collection

Maurin Quina, 1906. Creator: Cappiello, Leonetto (1875-1942)
Maurin Quina, 1906. Private Collection

Monnet Cognac, 1927. Private Collection

Down to the Dregs, 1880 (c1902)
Down to the Dregs, 1880, (c1902). Artist, John Seymour Lucas. A man in 17th century dress drains a tankard of beer. From The Nations Pictures

Revelling with Harlots, plate III of A Rakes Progress, 1735. Tom Rakewell and a companion consorting with harlots in a tavern

The Gin Shop, 1829
The Gin Shop, pub. 1829 (hand coloured engraving)

Cinzano, 1920. Creator: Cappiello, Leonetto (1875-1942)
Cinzano, 1920. Private Collection

The Mitre tavern, London, 1926-1927. Artist: Paterson
The Mitre tavern, London, 1926-1927. The Mitre lies between Ely Place and Hatton Garden. From Wonderful London, volume II, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, published by Amalgamated Press (London)

Gin Lane, February 1, 1751. Creator: William Hogarth
Gin Lane, February 1, 1751

Coopering, making whiskey barrels at Wiley & Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1961. The photograph shows a worker from the bonded warehouse hammering the rings into place on a barrel

Victorian gin house, 19th century (late 19th or early 20th century)

A Cribbage Party in St. Giless Disturbed By A Press Gang, October 26, 1787

The Bruiser, August 1, 1763. August 1, 1763. Creator: William Hogarth
The Bruiser, August 1, 1763

The Dissolute Household, ca. 1663-64. Creator: Jan Steen
The Dissolute Household, ca. 1663-64

The Little Father, 1897. Creator: Jean Baptiste Guth
The Little Father, 1897. Portrait of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (1868-1918), raising a toast. Published in Vanity Fair, 21 October 1897

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table-Talking, 1904. Artist: Max Beerbohm
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table-Talking, 1904. Illustration from The Poets Corner, by Max Beerbohm, (London, 1904)

Wassailing apple trees with hot cider in Devonshire on twelfth eve, 1861. A print from The Illustrated London News, (12 January 1861)

The Peasant Dance, 1568-1569. Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Peasant Dance, 1568-1569. The opening of a kermesse (village fair), with a traditional dance performed by two couples. From the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

The Hoffman House Bar, New York, USA, 1900s

Chelsea Pensioners with black jacks, London, c1901 (1901)
Chelsea Pensioners with Black Jacks, London, c1901 (1901). Pensioners at The Royal Chelsea hospital with two 5 gallon black jacks

Return from China, Arrival of repatriate, Toulon, 1901. Illustration published in, Le Petit Journal, 23rd June 1901

Flagon, 1765 / 80. Creator: Attributed to William Will
Flagon, 1765/80. Attributed to William Will

September - the Chateau de Saumur, 15th century, (1939). Creators: Paul Limbourg, Jean Colombe
September - the Chateau de Saumur, 15th century, (1939). Septembre - the Chateau de Saumur. Grape harvest in the vineyards: people gather grapes in baskets, donkeys carry them in panniers

A common council beast, returning from a turtle feast, c1775. A drunken common councilman is escorted home by two watchmen

The Bottle, 1847. Artist: George Cruikshank
The Bottle, 1847; showing an interior domestic scene with the father sitting in front of the fire smoking having been discharged from his employment because of his drunkeness

Vintners in an ale house, 1642. From a broadsheet titled Health to All

Dionysius in a sailing boat surrounded by dolphins, Ancient Greek dish (Krater), 530 BC. The boat is carrying a cargo of grapevines. Dionysius was the Ancient Greek god of wine

Sketches from New York: a lager beer brewery at Guttenberg, on the Hudson River, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Sketches from New York: a lager beer brewery at Guttenberg, on the Hudson River, 1864. 'The Teutonic population of New York [and] the neighbouring Brooklyn, Hoboken, and Jersey City

Sketches from New York: entertainment in a lager beer saloon, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Sketches from New York: entertainment in a lager beer saloon, 1864. 'Lager beer proper is composed of malt, hops, and water...It is lighter than the beer of England

Election Day in New York: a polling-place among the "Lower Twenty", 1864. Creator: Unknown
Election Day in New York: a polling-place among the "Lower Twenty", 1864. Crowds at a polling station on 8 November, '...the day of the Presidential election

Farewell banquet to the 109th Regiment at Kurrachee, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Farewell banquet to the 109th Regiment at Kurrachee, [modern Karachi, Pakistan], 1864. '...the European residents...gave a farewell entertainment to that gallant corps...the whole regiment

Rheims, wine vault used as Chapel, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Rheims, wine vault used as Chapel, between c1910 and c1915. A wine vault that was used as a chapel, probably during World War I in Rheims, France.

Drunk man - fun for children and women, 1861. Creator: Timm, Wassili (George Wilhelm) (1820-1895)
Drunk man - fun for children and women, 1861. Private Collection

Champagne Hau & Co, Reims, 1893. Creator: Crane, Walter (1845-1915). Champagne Hau & Co, Reims, 1893
Champagne Hau & Co, Reims, 1893. Private Collection

Brandy seller. From the Series "Cris de Paris" (The Cries of Paris), 1815. Private Collection

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: embarkation in the royal yacht Osborne…, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: embarkation in the royal yacht Osborne at Gottenborg - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864

Sketches from New York: a Garten Wirthschaft, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Sketches from New York: a Garten Wirthschaft, 1864. 'There is hardly a street, lane, or alley in the city of New York in which the lager beer saloon, in some of its various forms

Wedding of Yudin L.G., son of G.V. Yudin, Krasnoyarsk merchant, wine merchant, gold miner, 1900. Creator: Unknown
Wedding of Yudin L.G., son of G.V. Yudin, Krasnoyarsk merchant, wine merchant, gold miner, 1900. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in

"Hay-makers", by J. Linnell, Sen., from the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1864. Creator: W Thomas
"Hay-makers", by J. Linnell, Sen., from the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'We need hardly say that the landscape we have engraved is distinguished by

Théophile Guillon, Nantes, 1894. Creator: Anonymous
Theophile Guillon, Nantes, 1894. Private Collection

Burgeff & Co. Sparkling wine, Hochheim am Main, c. 1895. Creator: Anonymous. Burgeff & Co
Burgeff & Co. Sparkling wine, Hochheim am Main, c. 1895. Private Collection

At Champigny, giving wine to Algerian troops, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
At Champigny, giving wine to Algerian troops, between c1914 and c1915. People giving wine to Algerian soldiers at Champigny-sur-Marne, France, during World War I.

French Officers at luncheon in the field, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
French Officers at luncheon in the field, between c1914 and c1915. French soldiers eating and drinking wine in a field probably during World War I.

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