Narcotic Collection

Shiva and His Family, early 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Shiva and His Family, early 19th century. The Hindu god Shiva, surrounded by his family, is both an ascetic practitioner of yoga (a yogi) and a loving husband and father

Fonctionnaires chinois veillant au salut de l'empire!, 1859. Creator: Honore Daumier
Fonctionnaires chinois veillant au salut de l'empire!, 1859. Chinese officials ensuring the salvation of the empire! (The Opium Wars arose from China's attempts to suppress the opium trade)

A Swinging Festival in India, 1857. Creator: Unknown
A Swinging Festival in India, 1857....the infatuated native who was to be swung came in, amid the beating of Indian drums and the shouts of the people

Malay Opium-smokers; A Visit to Borneo, 1875. Creator: A. M. Cameron
Malay Opium-smokers; A Visit to Borneo, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] Belle Sauvage Works.London E.C

Malavakusika Raga... from a Dispersed Ragmala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Malavakusika Raga: Page from a Dispersed Ragmala Series (Garland of Musical Modes), early 17th century

Chinese opium smokers, 1843. Artist: Thomas Allom
Chinese opium smokers, 1843. From China in a Series of Views by George Newenham Wright

Smoking opium, mid 19th century. A Chinese woman smoking a pipe of opium, an addictive narcotic drug produced from the sap of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)

Sale of English goods in Canton, 1858. Canton was bombarded by French and English, Jan. 1858. which resulted in Trade opening up again

Lord Elgin signing the Treaty of Tainjin to end the Second Opium War, 1858
Lord Elgin (left) signing the Treaty of Tainjin to end the Second Opium War between Britain and China, 16 June 1858. Contemporary woodcut

Opium den in the Chninese quarter of San Francisco, c1870. Wood engraving

Second Opium War, 1856-58
Second Opium War - 1856-58. Chinese depiction of the engagement between the British and Chinese at Fatsham Creek on Canton river. British wood engraving

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