Pipe Collection (page 28)

Corner of a Cafe Concert, Detail, 1878-1880. Artist: Edouard Manet
Corner of a Cafe Concert, Detail, 1878-1880. Located in the collection at, The National Gallery, London

Corner of a Cafe Concert, 1878-1880. Artist: Edouard Manet
Corner of a Cafe Concert, 1878-1880. Located in the collection at The National Gallery, London

The Smoker, 1866. Artist: Edouard Manet
The Smoker, 1866. The painting reflects a comfortable and friendly relationship between Manet the artist, and the unknown smoking man

Fifer, 1866. Artist: Edouard Manet
Fifer, 1866. Located in the collection at Musee d Orsay, Paris

Smoker in front of a Fire, 17th century. Artist: David Teniers II
Smoker in front of a Fire, 17th century

Boring wooden pipes, and casting and drawing iron pipes, c1825. At top is a machine for boring wooden pipes. The rest of the machines are for casting a drawing out iron pipes

Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1875. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1875. Darwin (1809-1882) was employed as naturalist on HMS Beagle from 1831-1836. He first made his name as a geologist

Burying victims of the Plague of London at night in multiple graves, 1665. Two of the men are smoking pipes, partly to combat the stench of the corpses

Ceramics industry, c1870. Various aspects of the ceramics industry from the making of bricks, tiles and drainage pipes to the decoration of porcelain

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)

Roman Lead Water-Pipe with inscription, c2nd century. Emperor Antominus and Commodia. Rome, Terme Museum

Roman Leadwater Pipes from Colchester, Essex, c2nd-3rd century

Italian earthenware plate showing Pan piping to two shepherds. Artist: Maestro Benedetto
Depiction of Pan piping to two shepherds on a dish from Siena painted by Maestro Benedotto, from the British Museums collection

Nubian with a Waterpipe, 1862. Artist: Zichy, Mihaly (1827-1906)
Nubian with a Waterpipe, 1862. From a private collection

The Water-Pipe Smoker, 1903. Artist: Tornai, Gyula (1861-1928)
The Water-Pipe Smoker, 1903. From a private collection

Detail from the Egyptian satirical papyrus of a fox playing the pipes and leading goats, and a cat leading geese. From the British Museums collection

Singing Boy with Flute, c. 1623. Artist: Hals, Frans I (1581-1666)
Singing Boy with Flute, c.1623. Found in the collection of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Roman stucco of Dionysiac rites, 1st century BC
Roman stucco of Dionysiac rites from the Villa Farnese, Rome. On the left is the half-drunken Silenus, a woman before an altar, and a youth playing double-pipes, 1st century BC

A Smoker, 17th century. Artist: Willem Cornelisz Duyster
A Smoker, 17th century. Found in the collection of the State Art Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Soldiers Playing Cards, 17th century. Artist: Georges de la Tour
Soldiers Playing Cards, 17th century. Found in the collection of the Regional A Deineka Art Gallery, Kursk, Russia

Page with a Reed Pipe, late 17th or 18th century. Artist: Alexis Grimou
Page with a Reed Pipe, late 17th or 18th century. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Haida Native American tobacco-pipe, 19th century
Haida Native American tobacco-pipe, carved from Argillite, showing the legend of the Fisherman and his Wife. Currently in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, 19th century

The Wolf-Charmer, 1881. Artist: John Le Farge
The Wolf-Charmer, 1881. Belief in wolf charmers widespread in France in the first half of 19th century and was the last vestige of the werewolf legend

Plan of the water supply system to Canterbury Cathedral, c1150. The cathedral complex was supplied by five springs outside city

Sherlock Holmes, fictional detective. Holmes, the detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) in the 1890s, as portrayed by the early English film star, Clive Brook (1887-1974)

The Pied Piper leading away the children of Hamelin, c1899. Illustration from a childrens book. The story of the Pied Piper is best known in the English-speaking world from Robert Brownings poem

The Woodman, c late 19th century. Artist: M & N Hanhart
The Woodman, c late 19th century. A woodman setting off to work in a snowy landscape, axe under his arm and billhook tucked in his belt, with a pipe for comfort and a dog for company

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish-born British historian and essayist, 19th century. Carlyle (1795-1881) reading in his garden in Chelsea, London. Etching after a painting by Helen Allingham

Man smoking a pipe, early 17th century. A family group, with the father with a pipe producing much smoke while his wife and children seem to be raising objections

Le Tabac, 17th century. Artist: Abraham Bosse
Le Tabac, 17th century. Officers drinking and smoking clay pipes. In the left background is a curtained bed. Engraving after Jean de Saint-Igny (c1600-1649)

Young woman smoking a clay pipe and holding a wine glass, 17th century. Anti-smoking and drinking print on the Apish Art of Tasting

Itinerant knife grinder sharpening a blade by turning a grindwheel with a treadle, c1867. The red can over the grindwheel contains lubricant. A brazier hangs on the handle of the cart

French citizens listening to a broadcast by Vichy deputy premier Admiral Darlan, 23 May, 1941
French citizens listening to a broadcast by Vichy deputy premier Admiral Francois Darlan, 23 May, 1941

Allied commanders in France, 1944. From left to right; Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, General Dwight D Eisenhower, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder

A mine being drained by a rag-and-chain pump powered by an overshot water wheel, 1556. At the right of the image is a detail of section of pipe K. From De re metallica by Georgius Agricola

Turk Sitting Smoking on a Couch, 19th century. Artist: Eugene Delacroix
Turk Sitting Smoking on a Couch, 19th century. From the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France

Edwin Powell Hubble (1899-1953), American astronomer, in the obsevatory. Using the powerful hooker 100 inch reflector at Mount Wilson Observatory

Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), 1880. A block in the Jugdulluk Pass: British troops having difficulties on their way to reinforce General Roberts at Cabul (Kabul). December 1879

Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), 1879
Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880): Yakub (Yakoob) Khan, ruler of Afghanistan, at a review at Gundamuck, 30 May 1879, after signing of Treaty of Gundamuck on 26 May

Typical Cape Cod fisherman, 1875
Typical Cape Cod fisherman. From Harpers Monthly, New York, 1875

Illustration showing the working spaces of a gas works, 1828: l: Retort House. 2: Tar cistern. 3: Condenser. 5, 6: Gasholder. 7: Office. 8: Workshops

Men Omini War-Pipe, North American Indian. Smoked during ceremonial preparation for war and as part of peace-making ceremony

Eskimo Carving, Ivory Tobacco Pipes, Alaska and Canada, 19th Century. Tobacco was an important commodity to the Inuit who varved ivory pipes they traded with whalers for English and American tobacco

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychoanalyst

Interior of Cree Indian tent, 1823. Artist: John Franklin
Interior of Cree Indian tent, 1823. Man smoking: Papoose in cradle : Cooking pot suspended over fire. Coloured lithograp from John Franklin Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea

JB Priestley, British novelist, playwright, essayist and broadcaster, c1927. Joseph Boynton Priestley (1894-1984) was born in Bradford in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge

Arthur Rimbaud, French poet and adventurer, 1895. Rimbauds (1854-1891) career as a poet was brief but dazzling. He wrote his last poem at the age of 19

Resentment of Chinese in gold mining areas of United States, 1875
Resentment of Chinese in gold mining areas of United States. The Heathen Chinee was accused of cheating at cards. After print by Currier and Ives published 1875

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