Opium Collection

Papaver somniferum, Opium poppy
Drawing by Arthur Harry Church in 1904. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

East End Opium Den
An opium den in Londons East End - sixpenceworth, which is about a thimble-full and half as much again, seems to be the ordinary allowance

Opium Wars / Arrow
Chinese officials arrest the crew of the British ship Arrow as pirates sparking off the war

Opium poppy varieties, Papaver somniferum, and Anemone mexicana. Papaver sativum flore saturate purpureo petalis laciniatis, Papaver sativum rubrum flore simplici

Incredible hallucinations brought on by smoking Opium
Seeing Everything - The wild and incredible hallucinations brought on by smoking Opium. Date: 1905

Manufacture of Opium in India
Raising revenue of opium saw large profits in the drug to China. Photograph showing an intermediate stage in the process of preparation

Storming the Taku Forts, August 1860, Second Opium War, China Date: 1860

Capture of the Peiho Forts (or Taku Forts), near Tianjin, Second Opium War, 12-21 August 1860, China Date: 1860

Anglo-French forces looting the Emperors Palace, Beijing, August 1860, Second Opium War, China Date: 1860

Chinese dealers in the camp of the allies, between Sinho and Tankoo, Second Opium War, China. Date: 1860

Signing the Treaty of Nankin (Nanking, Nanjing), ending the First Opium War, 29 August 1842. Date: 1842

The Squadron before Amoy, First Opium War (1839-1842). Date: early 1840s

Officers of Fanes Horse, Tientsin, Tianjin, China 1861
Vintage 19th century photograph: Officers of Fanes Horse, raised by Captain Walter Fane at Cawnpore in 1860 for service in the Second Opium War in China

General Sir James Hope Grant, GCB British Army officer
Vintage 19th century photograph: General Sir James Hope Grant, GCB was a British Army officer. He served in the First Opium War, First Anglo-Sikh War, Indian Mutiny of 1857, and Second Opium War

Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, Royal Navy
Vintage 19th century photograph: Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, KCB (11 April 1802 - 3 June 1861) was a Royal Navy officer

Gromwell varieties, Lithospermum species. Lithospermum flore caeruleo, Lithospermum seu Milium solis grenil, Lithospermum arvense radice alba, Lithospermum linariae folio sue Lingua passerina

Acid weed or mermaids hair, Desmarestia dresnayi. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and horned poppy, Glaucium corniculatum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Opium poppy and corn poppy
Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum 1 and corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas 13. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1848

Leaf vegetables and herbs, Herbes potageres et plantes condimenteires. Green and red basil, Ocimum basilicum, opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, thyme, Thymus vulgaris, and bay leaf, Laurus nobilis

White opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Manchu mandarin and Miao mountaineer, China
Manchu mandarin in fur coat, beard and hat with peacock feather, and Miao mountaineer from southern China. (Sketched from the body of a man killed in the Opium Wars against the British)

Opium poppy and Cretan milk-vetch
Opium poppy with seedpod, Papaver somniferum 1, and Cretan milk-vetch, Astracantha cretica 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

The Eaglets attack on Chinese junks at Toong-Chung
The chartered steamer Eaglets attack on Chinese junks at Toong-Chung, China, during the Second Opium War. 1857

Chinese workers picking poppies for opium. 1930s

View of the port of Shanghai, China
Shanghai, China, one of the five ports opened to British trade by the Treaty of Nanking of 1842, after the First Opium War. 19th century

View of the port of Foo Choo Foo (Fuzhou), China
Foo Choo Foo (Fuzhou), one of the five ports opened to British trade by the Treaty of Nanking of 1842, after the First Opium War. 1847

Combined fleet in China, 1860
The combined British and French fleet in China - transports in Kowloon (Cowloong) Bay, Hong Kong, preparing to get under way for the north. Part of the Second Opium War. Date: 1860

GERMAN COMMUNISTS 1925
Anti-religious propaganda by German Communists: " Religion is the opium of the people." Date: 1925

OPIUM SMOKING TOOLS
The equipment of a serious Chinese opium smoker Date: 1893

OPIUM SMOKERS, MALAYSIA
Three Malay smokers of opium Date: circa 1860

Second opium War (1856-1860). Landing of the allied troops o
Second opium War (1856-1860) between the British Empire and the Second French Empire against Qing Dynasty of China. Landing of the allied troops of France and Great Britain near at Beitang (Pei Tang)

Opium Den in San Francisco
Two men in an opium den in the Chinatown district of San Francisco, one holds a pipe, the other lies alongside a tray of paraphernalia associated with the drug. Date: circa 1895

Smoking Opium, China
Chinese man smoking Opium, China Date: circa 1910s

Smoking opium in France
Men smoking in a Chinese opium den in Toulon, France. 1907

Papaver Somniferum
An opium poppy

Botanical illustration of the poppy, with flower parts, opium pod, Papaver somniferum.. Lithograph by Verneuil with pochoir (stencil)

China - A Chinese Opium Den and Smokers Date: circa 1910s

Papaver somniferum, opium poppy
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33

Opium Poppy pickers - near Afyon, Turkey
Opium Poppy Pickers. The pickers have faces covered to prevent too much ingestion of the crop! The name of the city of Afyon is derivated from Opium

Sultan Abdul Hamid II of Turkey - Turkish Propaganda
Turkish propaganda card. Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842 - 1918) oversaw a period of decline in the power and extent of the Empire, ruling from 31 August 1876 until he was deposed on 27 April 1909

Izmir, Turkey - Opium Cultivation
Opium poppies and their exporter, J Taranto (from J Taranto & Sons - Exporters of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey) (left) at a field likely to be close to Afyon

French spoils from China exhibited at Tuileries, 1861
French spoils from China recently exhibited at the Palace of the Tuileries. Treasures and valuable objects sent home from the Summer Palace as a present to Napoleon III

The opium clipper Wild Dayrell
Illustration showing the schooner constructed by John and Robert White, of the Medina Docks, Cowes, for the firm Dent and Co. of Hong Kong. Date: 1855

Albert a D Sassoon
Sir ALBERT ADDALLAH DAVID SASSOON - son of David S. member of family who used opium trade and exploited native labour to acquire huge fortune and titles. Date: 1818 - 1896

Chinese opium trader
A Chinese opium trader at his desk. Date: 1882

What we ought to do in China
A Chinese dragon is threatened by a British warrior on horseback. Date: 1860

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