Bottle Collection (page 15)

Fruit, 1879-1880. Artist: Paul Cezanne
Fruit, 1879-1880. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg

Milk production, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1952. With help from UNICEF

Incident at the Grand-Prix, Pavillion d Armenonville, France, 1899. Artist: Eugene Damblans
Incident at the Grand-Prix, Pavillion d Armenonville, France, 1899. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 25th June 1899

Doctor Syntax with My Lord, early 19th century. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Doctor Syntax with My Lord, early 19th century

The charlatan of the Middle Ages, c1900. French advertising for Liebig Extract of Meat. Private Collection

Champagne Devaux advertisement, 1846

Heidsieck Champagne advertisement on a menu, 19th century

Perfume Merchant, 1928. Artist: Louis Cabanes
Perfume Merchant, 1928. Published in Promenades a travers Le Caire, 1928

Horse-drawn cart carrying crates of drink, German-occupied Paris, July 1940. Under the German occupation, petrol was unobtainable

Sri Raga, Ragamala Album, School of Rajasthan, 19th century. A prince sitting on the terrace of a house where Narada and Kinnara are playing music

French and Belgian refugees, Rambouillet, France, 16 July 1940. Families who had fled before the advancing Germans prepare to return to their homes after the capitulation of France

The Couple, French Postcard, c1900. Private collection

Like Grandather, French Postcard, c1900
Like Grandfather, French Postcard, c1900. Private collection

The Parquet Planers, 1875. Artist: Gustave Caillebotte
The Parquet Planers, 1875. From the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris, France

Bar at Folies Bergere, 1881. Artist: Edouard Manet
Bar at Folies Bergere, 1881. A Bar at the Folies Bergere nightclub in Paris, France

Virgin and Child, detail, 16th century. A hand holds open an illuminated devotional book with clasps and fore-edge gilt. In the background a traveller fills his water bottle in a stream

Still Life, c1900. Artist: Guillaume Apollinaire
Still Life, c1900. Bottle, vase flowers, glass, pair of scissors. From a private collection

Still Life, 19th century

The amateur chemists laboratory bench, 1860. Artist: M & N Hanhart
The amateur chemists laboratory bench, 1860. The largest item on the bench is a Liebig condenser, a piece of apparatus devised by the German chemist Justus von Liebig (1803-1873)

The apothecarys shop, Strasbourg, 1483. Artist: Johannis De Cuba
The apothecarys shop. From Johannis de Cuba Ortus Sanitatis, Strasbourg, 1483

Miss Nightingale and the Military in the East, c1860. Florence Nightingale in the British military hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1853-1856). The doctor is taking a patients pulse

Ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, 1871. This was under the management of the Metropolitan Asylums Board and was built to meet the needs of the epidemic of the winter of 1870 to 1871

Soap manufacturing, c1905. The Vinolia Soap Companys London laboratory where raw materials and essential oils were tested

Terracotta Gorgons head bottle
A terracotta Gorgons head from Rhodes, probably a scent bottle

Roman glass bottles

Roman Glass Bottle

Etruscan bronze figures from the lid of a bronze vessel. A female athlete holds an oil bottle, and a male athlete a strigil. From the British Museums collection

Still Life with Books, 17th century. Artist: Gerrit van Vucht
Still Life with Books, 17th century. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Peruvian earthenware bottle in the form of a squatting figure, 5th century
Peruvian earthenware bottle in the form of a squatting figure, from Mochica on the north coast. Currently in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 5th century

Bronze vessel in the form of the head of a young African woman. From the British Museums collection

The Manciple, from Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer (c1345-1400) English poet. A manciple was a man who bought provisions for a college, monastery or inn of court

The End of the Feast, c1895. Artist: Martin Anderson
The End of the Feast, c1895. A boy in bed shows his furred tongue to a doctor who feels the boys pulse. On the table is bottle of castor oil (Ricinus) which will be given as a laxative

Antonius de Monte Ulmi (fl1384-1390), Italian physician, necromancer, magician and astrologer, 1493. Antonius was physician to Francesco the Younger (1393-1406), despot of Carrara

The refreshment bar, Chamber of Deputies of France, Paris, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
The refreshment bar, Chamber of Deputies of France, Paris, 1892. From left to right: Basly, Pelletan, Thivrier, Le Senne, Laguerre, De Cassagnac, and Rivet

Monkey Bottle, Mochica Culture, Peru, 100-750
Monkey Bottle, Mochica Culture, Peru, 1-750. The Moche civilization flourished in northern Peru with its capital near present-day Moche, Trujillo, Peru from about 100 to 700 AD. Royal Scottish Museum

The New Stamp Duty, 1880. Artist: Joseph Swain
The New Stamp Duty, 1880. The gentleman in the dark glasses is Mr Henry Fawcett, the blind Postmaster General. He had just introduced a scheme whereby small amounts could be saved in the Post Office

Scinece and Stupidity, 1876. Artist: Joseph Swain
Scinece and Stupidity, 1876. The policeman, clutching his Vivisection Bill, tries to move on the group of medical professors using a microscope to look at the results of their latest work

A Quack in the Right Place, 1864. Artist: John Tenniel
A Quack in the Right Place; Or, What we Should Like to See, 1864. A quack doctor is pelted with his own preparations, together with carrots and the occasional dead cat

The Derby 1863 - Portrait of The Winner, 1863. Artist: John Tenniel
The Derby 1863 - Portrait of The Winner, 1863. A topical cartoon from Punch. Palmerston, trainer of the British people, welcomes home the Derby winner

Probable Effect of Mr. Somess Sunday Closing Bill, 1863. Artist: John Leech
Probable Effect of Mr.Somess Sunday Closing Bill, 1863. Workman says: Well, Betsy, If They Won t Let Us Get Any Refreshment O Sunday Out O Doors - We Must Lay In A Stock, And Drink At Home

The Latest from America, 1862. Or, the New York Eye-Duster, to be taken Every Day. President Lincoln turns Victory into Defeat by making a cocktail of Bunkum

The Next Invasion, 1860. Landing of ther French (Light Wines) and Discomfiture of Old General Beer. Earlier in February, England and France had committed themselves to the Treaty of Commerce

The Durham Cheese, 1861. The Bishop of Durham, finely clad with the most enormous sleeves, pours the last of the bottle into the cheese, leaving nothing for the shabby clergyman standing before him

The Next Refugee, or a Drheam of the Futur, 1859. Pro Nono I want-a, to go to Ley-chesterra Squarra! Pope Pius IX, clutching his shopping basket like a housewife, with his umbrella and box of relics

The Frantic Footman, who has had Warning, 1859. The defeat of Disraelis Reform Bill in March 1862 brought down Lord Derbys Conservative Government

A Losing Game, 1858. Louis Napoleon to Palmerston What about my match with Montalembert? Palmerston replies, shaking his head, Very awkward for your British backers

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