Opium Collection

Passant la revue des fumeurs d'opium, 1858. Creator: Honore Daumier
Passant la revue des fumeurs d'opium, 1858. (Histoire de faire aller le commerce). Making a review of opium smokers. (History of encouraging trade)

Foot-race at Canton by Coolies of the Military Train - sketched by our special artist and... 1858. Creator: Unknown
Foot-race at Canton by Coolies of the Military Train - sketched by our special artist and correspondent, 1858. On the Queen's birthday the English at Canton had a review in the morning

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)

Opium-smoking in China - from drawings by a native artist, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Opium-smoking in China - from drawings by a native artist, 1858. Fig. 4. Having disposed of his costly garments, the victim next sells his furniture

Opium-smoking in China - from drawings by a native artist, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Opium-smoking in China - from drawings by a native artist, 1858. Fig 1....two partners in an opium firm superintending the operations of their workmen...Fig

O Plaisir de l'opium que tu me ravis!... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
O Plaisir de l'opium que tu me ravis!... 1844. O plaisir de l'opium, que tu me ravis!...il me semble que j'habite l'Orient...du reste

Sketches from China - Chinese Opium-smokers, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Sketches from China - Chinese Opium-smokers, 1858. Note woman on right with bound feet. The rooms where the Chinese sit and smoke opium are surrounded by wooden couches

The new clipper steam-ship "Ly-ee-moon", built for the opium trade, 1860. Creator: Unknown
The new clipper steam-ship "Ly-ee-moon", built for the opium trade, 1860. This beautiful vessel, which on her trial-trip attained the extraordinary speed of nearly seventeen knots per hour

Old, skinny Chinese (opium smoker?) sitting on a sidewalk in Batavia, 1846. Creator: Ernest Alfred Hardouin
Old, skinny Chinese (opium smoker?) sitting on a sidewalk in Batavia, 1846

The opium fiend, Chinatown, San Francisco, between 1896 and 1906. Creator: Arnold Genthe
The opium fiend, Chinatown, San Francisco, between 1896 and 1906

Viscount Jocelyn, M.P. for Lyme Regis, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Viscount Jocelyn, M.P. for Lyme Regis, 1850. Portrait after a miniature by Sir W. Ross. Jocelyn...sailed with the despatches from Canton; and...wrote an account...under the title of "Six Months

The late Heinrich Heine, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The late Heinrich Heine, 1856. German poet. Although for eight years he has been reported in a dying condition, his activity has never ceased...Even his lengthened illness had given a new impulse to

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

Opium, 1894. Creator: Prouve, Victor (1858-1943)
Opium, 1894. Private Collection

Front of Kwan-Yin Temple, Hong-Kong; A Mendicant Priest; A Street in Hong-Kong; Opium-Smoking in a Restaurant, c. 1868. A work made of collotype, pl

A Whiff of the Opium Pipe at Home; After Dinner; Reading for Honours; The Toilet, c. 1868. A work made of collotype, pl. x from the album " illustrations of china and its people

The Chinese in New York - Scene in a Baxter Street Club-House (Harpers Weekly, Vol. XVIII), March 7, 1874

Opium smoker, 1867. Creator: William Thomas Saunders
Opium smoker, 1867

[Opium Smokers], 1870s. Creator: Pun-Lun
[Opium Smokers], 1870s

A Friendly Visit, April 16, 1814. April 16, 1814. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
A Friendly Visit, April 16, 1814

Li-Soe-Nie - man smoking opium, Magalang, Java, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers
Li-Soe-Nie - man smoking opium, Magalang, Java, 1898. Portrait of a man with an opium pipe. From " Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers

Opium Smoking - The Lascars Room in Edwin Drood, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
Opium Smoking-The Lascars Room in Edwin Drood", 1872. Limehouse and Pennyfields had opium-smoking and gambling rooms

Scarron, (c1610- 1660), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Scarron, (c1610- 1660), 1830. Paul Scarron (c1610- 1660) French poet, dramatist and libertine novelist born in Paris. First husband of Francoise d Aubigne who secretly married King Louis XIV of

John Keats, 1821, (c1876). Creator: Unknown
John Keats, 1821, (c1876). John Keats (1795-1821), English Romantic poet on his deathbed with tuberculosis aged 25, sedated with laudanum and opium. Keats moved to Hampstead in April 1817

Femme Fumant De L Opium, (Woman Smoking Opium), 1900. Creator: Unknown
Femme Fumant De L Opium, (Woman Smoking Opium), 1900.. From " Autour du Monde - Fascicule VI". [L. Boulanger, Paris, 1900]

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

Opium-Smoking in New York (From Harpers Weekly, September 24, 1881), 1881. Artist: Anonymous
Opium-Smoking in New York (From Harpers Weekly, September 24, 1881), 1881. Private Collection

An Opium Den in San Francisco, 19th century. From The Colonial Portfolio. [The Werner Company, London]

The Opium Clipper Brig Anonyma in the Straits of Malacca, 1846. Artist: Norman Hill
The Opium Clipper Brig Anonyma in the Straits of Malacca, 1846. From Adventures By Sea From Art of Old Time, by Basil Lubbock. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1925]

Poppy, c19th century

A Night in an Opium Den, 1891
A Night in an Opium Den. Illustration From The Strand Magazine January-June 1891

Chinese opium smokers, 19th century

Opium smoking in the East End of London, 1874. Artist: WB Murrey
Opium smoking in the East End of London, 1874. A notice on the wall refers to the imminent departure of a ship from London to Ceylon and Penang in the Far East

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)

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

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