Drinking Collection (page 42)

Two Drunks (Bobbin)
Two ugly old drunks have a drop together, with one man rubbing his eye

Man & Woman Drunk 1773
A drunken woman makes an angry lunge for her partners jug of grog

Selfish Drunk (Bobbin)
A thirsty fellow covets his companions jug of drink with bulging eyes

Party Clothes 1930
A small at home drinks party. One of the male guests isn t stopping long - so no need to remove the topcoat. Notice the large dot motif dress of one of the ladies

Hand-Rearing Piglets
Piglets drinking milk from either end of a twin milk feeder bottle

German Country Fair / C16
Drinking & dancing at a country fair

Theatre Going 1850
An over crowded theatre gallery filled with many drunken theatre-goers

Egan / Cravens Head
Actors at the Cravens Head Tavern, Drury Lane

A Baby having a Drink
A baby lies on his back drinking milk from his bottle

Advert / Byrrh Aperitif
Byrrh aperitif

Penelopes Suitors
At Ithaca, in the absence of Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelopes bored Suitors get drunk, while a minstrel plays his lyre to them. Telemachus, Odysseus son, watches with disapproval

C16 German Village Life
A wide variety of activity in a German village

Spirit Sacrifice to Wine
Man in drunken stupour, surrounded by bacchic cherubs, preferring earthly pleasures in another glass of wine to heavenly promise

Drink Restriction Satire
The lamentable complaints....concerning the restraint set forth against drinking, potting and piping on the Sabbath day

Wagner / With Bulows / Home
RICHARD WAGNER German composer at home with his wife, Cosima, members of the von Bulow family and others

Cats / And People / Alphabet
Farmyard cat drinking milk in the kitchen (and about to get a whack!)

Likely Lads Drinking
Three " likely lads" enjoying a pint and chat outside a pub on a sunny day

Drinking in Cafe
Drinking through a straw

Drinking Outside an Inn
A party outside an inn

People at a medieval banquet
A banquet is enjoyed by some important people

Working horses drinking at a trough, London
Working horses (cab horses and cart horses) in a London street, drinking at a trough on a hot day

Scene in an Ancient Roman tavern

A depiction of Gluttony, with people feasting greedily at a table, while a poor old man begs for a few coins. Some have too much, others have too little

Drink Temperance
The good ladies of Logan, Ohio, sing psalms outside a bar, hoping to put the drinkers off their tipple

Freddy meets the Little Man who had a little gun
Freddy meets another of his nursery rhyme heroes, the Little Man who had a little gun. Also at the table is Mary, Quite Contrary, as can be seen by her expression

Monsieur Luigi in his restaurant, with tables full of rich people behind him

Boy at hot springs drinking fountain, Bath
Boy drinking from a water fountain containing water from the Hot Springs of Bath

Robin Hood and his men on a music sheet
Robin Hood and his Merry Men depicted on a music sheet entitled The Musical Bouquet. The music itself is for a new song, The Merry Sherwood Ranger, composed by Alexander Lee to words by J Halford

Drinking from a Barrel
straight from the barrel... Date: circa 1670

C17 Tavern Drinking
Three roisterers make merry and order another round in a tavern, but one of them looks apprehensive as their hostess produces the bill

Chinese Drinking Tea
A nobly-born Chinese lady prepares to drink the tea which a servant girl has been kind enough to bring her

Cartoon on Tea Duty
Ladies gather round a large urn of tea drinking from large cups since it is " A good cup of tea when the duty is taken off

W. P. Fairless, Publican
The publican W.P.Fairless of the Castle Howard Ox Hotel, York. He reportedly weighed 190 kg (30 stone) in 1935

Birthday Drinkies
A gentleman celebrates his birthday by taking a drink or two with friends at the pub... but the postcard begs him not to overdo the drinks or he ll be fit for nothing tonight

Smoking / Pipes / Holland
The pleasures and pitfalls of smoking are illustrated in this picture of Dutch pipe smokers

Sigurd Ramessen Submits
Sigurd Ranesson submits to King Sigurd Jorsalfarer and convinces him of his innocence. He had been accused embezzling the Finn tax

School Milk 1931
Rows of well-behaved orderly children seated in rows, drinking their free school milk during their morning break

Mixed Bar Scene 1930S
A mixed bar scene, with two children standing in the bar doorway, perhaps sent to tell their father that his dinner is getting cold!

Dutch Family 17C
A family gathering in a Dutch household - gossipping, drinking, playing games

Drinking Blood / France
Les buveurs de sang : sickly Parisiens drink fresh blood at the Abattoirs of La Villette

Working Mens Bar, Paris
A working mens bar, Paris

Pipe, Pint of Beer, Cane
A pint of foaming ale, a pipe, cane, hat and gloves; items befitting the country gentleman of leisure. The Old Albion Inn, Newquay is seen in the background

French Afternoon Tea
A French couple out for afternoon tea: he doesn t seem to be enjoying it very much

Couple Photo / Piano 1930S
A man plays a piano and looks up at a glamorous woman in a long dress who is leaning seductively on a corner of the piano Date: 1930s

The Knight & the Horn
On a mound in Gloucestershire thirsty travellers or hunters would be magically refreshed with nectar, until an ill mannerd knight neglected to return the drinking horn

Drinking Fountain / France
Aix-les-Bains: the drinking fountain

Couple Boozing 1823
PERFECT FELICITY A couple of drinkers in their element with glasses of booze and bottles in either hand

Scandinavian New Year
ANCIENT SCANDINAVIA For the Scandinavians, any special occasion is an excuse for drinking, and the New Year - the Feast of Jul (Yule) is no exception

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