Alcoholic Collection (page 3)

Label, Elixir de France, an alcoholic drink brand. Date: circa 1910s

Beer drinkers. Engraving by Roman Ribera. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1885

Creme de Menthe advertisement, 1931
Advertisement for Bols Cr譥 de Menthe, a liqueur dedicated to the dance, greatly enjoyed by the fair sex. Not only that, it is a delicate stimulant to the digestion. Date: 1931

Roman base of a press, special for wine. 1st century BC. Spa
Roman base of a press, special for wine. 1st century BC. From Mas Cartella, Catalonia. Wine Museum. Spain

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Servant offering a glass of wine to his
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Servant offering a glass of wine to his master on his return home. Folio 87V

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Wine cellar
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Wine cellar. Two men drinking wine while another man is extracting wine from a barrel. Folio 86v

Edouard Manet (1832-1883). Corner of a Cafe-Concert (probabl
Edouard Manet (1832-1883). French painter. Corner of a Cafe-Concert (probably 1877-1880). Oil on canvas. National Gallery. Londres. England. UK

Victorian scrap - comical Salvation Army drinker. 19th century

Pink Lady coaster
Drinks coaster for Pink Lady featuring an elegant gloved hand holding a glass of the sparkling beverage. Date: c.1960

Path of a Drunkard
The path of a drunkard is a story of degradation from polite civility to filthy clothes and unruly behaviour. Date: 1866

Advert / Henkell Champagne
Henkell Champagne - Frederick the Great reviews his troops Date: 1908

Advert / Libotte Beer 1896
Poster for Libotte-Thiriar Beer from Liege Date: circa 1896

Advert / Sohnlein Champagn
Sohnlein Champagne Date: 1901

Dryden / Champagne / 118
Poster design to advertise Kupferberg Reisling Champagne featuring four gentlemen in evening dress sitting around a table drinking champagne. Date: 1912

Food and Drink / Pulque
PULQUE (MEXICAN ALCOHOLIC DRINK) A native Mexican extracting Pulque Date: 19th Century

Interior of a pulque bar, Mexico City, Mexico
Interior of a pulque bar or pulqueria, Mexico City, Mexico, with barman and customer. Pulque is an alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant. Date: circa 1905

NOGUɓ, Xavier. Tiles with drunk men
NOGUɓ i CASAS, Francesc Xavier (1873-1941). Drunk men in panel of six polychrome tiles, c. 1915. Noucentisme. Painting. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Barcelona City History Museum

Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 7
This is the woman, with wobegone face, The wife of the drunkard, in rags and disgrace, Who is served by the lady, all jewels and lace, The wife of the landlord who coins his bright gold

Three Blind Mice by George Studdy
Three little mice, somewhat the worse for wear having polished off a glass of wine at an empty restaurant table. Date: 1915

The Bonzolines have a couple by George Studdy
The Bonzolines get a little squiffy on whisky, and spill some of the decanters contents. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

Dewars Whisky advertisement
Advertisement for Dewars whisky, featuring a smart footman in full livery and powdered wig carrying a decanter and glass on a tray. Date: 1927

Britannia as a protectress
A social scene from a Scottish tavern. Date: 1827

Tatler front cover 1964, featuring a gin and tonic
Front cover of The Tatler magazine for July 1964 featuring a close up photograph of a particularly inviting looking gin and tonic, with ice and lemon. Date: 1964

Women Motor Cyclists
Two young women motor cyclists, who appear to be accepting a drop of drink from a man with a flask, non- alcoholic, we hope. Date: early 1930s

Cocktails at Home
Two young women having a girlie night in, mixing cocktails at a home cocktail bar. Date: early 1930s

Prairie wigwam - home to an indigenous Mother and Uncle
Prairie wigwam - home to the indigenous mans Mother and Uncle, both of whom peep out of suitable holes in the decorated canvas covering. It looks as if the Uncle has already hit the bottle

Father O Flynn unconvinced by drunks claim to sober
Father O Flynn - " Pat, you re dhrunk again." Pat - " Oi m not, Yer Riverence." Father O Flynn - " Yis ye are, Pat; an if ye were not, you wouldn t deny it." !!

Priest concerned about Pats level of Whiskey consumption
Priest - " And how many whiskeys do you drink in an hour, Pat?" Pat - " Sometoimes Wan; sometoimes Two; but never less than three, Your Riverance." Date: 1893

Drunk Yokel protests his innocence to local landowner
" What! drunk again Mick?" " Well, I ve just had a toothful, yer Honour." " I think we shall have to get that tooth stopped." Date: 1892

Old Mrs Snooksons Husband view on his drinking ailment
" Well, hows your Husband, Mrs Snookson?" " O! Es very bad, poor ear Es such a martyr to Delerium Tremins." !!

Drunken Gentleman requesting a clove off a Policeman
Drunken Gentleman in multiple stages of disarray requests a clove from a London Policeman in order to disguise (fat chance!) the evidence that he has been boozing. Date: circa 1890s

Well-heeled man reduced to staying at the Temperance Hotel
Formerly Well-heeled elderly gentleman (now a little tatty) reduced to staying at the Temperance Hotel. Down in the World Alas! See what Drink had brought him to. Date: 1892

Ragged Street singers - looking decidedly worse for wear
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a pair of ragged street singers singing about fair and stormy weather - the perfect illustrative template for their undoubtedly

John Robertson Whisky
A Scotsman in traditional dress holds a glass whilst sitting on a barrel of whisky Date: 1893

Drunk with Two Friends
Hardly able to stand, a drunk is helped on his way by two friends. Date: circa 1830

Lehmanns Wine advertisement
An advertisement for Lehmanns non-alcoholic wine. Two figures clad in Classical Greek or Roman attire carry a vine branch between them

Cairo - Sellers of Bouza
Itinerant sellers of Bouza, a fermented alcoholic beverage produced from wheat in Egypt. Is this the origin of the English term booze??? Date: circa 1910s

Drunk Men
Drunk men on their yearly free Monday. Scene from the Swedish every day life Date: 1850s

Drunkeness satire
Oh, poor thing, is your husband a drunkard? - No, is yours? Satirical drawing Date: 1906

Drunk peasant on their way hone from the market. Scene from the Swedish every day life Date: 1850s

Mexico - Donkeys carrying pulque
A tlachiquero on a burro with a load of pulque (an alcoholic beverage) in the saddlebags of a group of other donkeys. Date: circa 1905

Bottling Benedictine at Fecamp, France
Bottling Benedictine herbal liqueur at Fecamp, Normandy, France. The Salle d Etiquetage ( The Labelling Room ). Date: circa 1910s

Barrack canteen exterior, 1847
Exterior of an army barrack canteen, 1847. An illustration provided to accompany an article in the Illustrated London News, advocating temperance and reform

Barrack canteen interior, 1847
Interior of an army barrack canteen, 1847. An illustration provided to accompany an article in the Illustrated London News, advocating temperance and reform

Coronation Dry Sherry advertisement, 1953
Advertisement for Gonzalez Byass, sherries of distinction, featuring their special Coronation Dry Sherry, to be drunk during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Date: 1953

Barrack canteen interior, 1872
Soldiers of the Army Service Corps relaxing in the canteen on Bottle Bush Down during their Autumn Campaign in Wiltshire, England

VAT 69 Whiskey Coronation advertisement
Advertisement for VAT 69 Scotch whiskey which includes a picture of the Coronation procession of Queen Elizabeth II. Date: 1953

Distilling Benedictine at Fecamp, France
Distilling Benedictine herbal liqueur at Fecamp, Normandy, France. This card is entitled Distillation in the Laboratory ! Date: circa 1910s

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