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Captain Cuttle, Dombey and SonCharles Dickens Characters by Frank Reynolds for Buchanans Whisky - Captain Cuttle, Dombey and Son. 1912
Cartoon by Henry Bunbury, The Smoking Club. Date: circa 1790s
How a railway train is propelled -- two diagrams of a locomotive engine, showing firebox, boiler, smoke box, steam chamber, cylinder and piston, safety valves, steam whistle and feed pipe. Date: 1841
Christmas Card or Present Tag, Santa Claus. 20th century
Advert, Peter & Mark Hurll, Brick and Sewer Pipes, GlenboigAdvert for Peter & Mark Hurll, Brick and Sewer Pipe Works, Glenboig and Glasgow, Scotland. 1905
Party Invitation Card, Three Dogs. 20th century
Fath Ali Chah, second Qajar emperor or Shah of Iran (1772-1832). Illustration from Guillaume-Antoine Oliviers Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, 1801
Costumes of a chief and a youth of the Tlingit nation, Port des Francais (Lituya Bay), Northwest coast of America (Alaska)
Man and woman of Albania. Illustration from Francois Pouquevilles Travels through More, Albania and several other parts of the Ottoman Empire, 1805
Red-tailed pipe snake, Cylindrophis ruffus (Cylindrophis resplendens). Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Sandler from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History
Animal imitator, 14th centuryPerformers including an animal imitator in the 14th century: man with pipe and tabor dancing with a man in a stag costume
Animal imitators, 14th centuryPerformers imitating animals in the 14th century: man with pipe and tabor dancing with a man in stag costume; man with dancing dog, man with stick receiving a scroll from a boy with a dogs head
Medieval entertainment with horses: a horse baited with dogs; a horse dancing to pipe and tabor; a horse fighting a man with shield and cudgel near a tethered monkey;
Gleemen and trained bear, 10th centuryAnglo-Saxon gleemen with sticks and pipes performing with a trained bear, 10th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
Medieval performersGirl dancing on the shoulders of a bagpiper, and a man playing a pipe with an animal head while dancing on stilts, 13th century
Medieval dancers and performersGirl dancing on the shoulders of a bagpiper, 13th century, man playing a pipe while dancing on stilts, 13th century (top), tumbler preparing to leap through a hoop held by two others
Girl tumbler, 14th centuryGirl backflipping accompanied by musicians playing pipes and tabor, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
Medieval tumblersMan tumbling backwards, 14th century, woman tumbling, 13th century, and girl backflipping accompanied by a juggler and musician with pipe and tabor, 14th century
Gleemen dancing to lyre and pipe music, 9th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876
Men playing skittles in a pub garden, late 18th centuryMen playing the game of skittles (quilles) in a pub garden. One man clutches his shin after it has been hit by the bowling ball. From an English caricature of the late 18th century
Medieval men inflating pig bladders, playingMedieval men inflating pig bladders (for bagpipes?), playing mandolins and pipes. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse), Librairie Hachette
Norman musical instruments and a siegeNorman instruments: violins 243, 245, a pipe organ 244, harps 246, 249, lyre 247, lute 248, zither 250, hunting horn 251, and siege of a castle by archers and soldiers on a boat 252
Dutchmans pipe, Monotropa hypopitys (Yellow birds nest, Monotropa hypopithys). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1792
Australian aboriginal dancing at a corroboree. Body painted with pipe clay and red ochre. Native of New South Wales dancing
Baja organ pipe cactus, Stenocereus stellatus (Cactus stellatus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after George Loddiges from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1817
Red coral, Corallium rubrum, and organ pipe coral, Tubipora musica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his own Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van
Scene in an American farmhouse on a winterScene in an American farmhouse on a November night, mid 19th century. Family members playing cards at a table, men smoking pipes, etc
Tatar musicians in a Crimean town square, mid 19th centuryTatar musicians playing fiddle and balalaika in a Crimean town square, men smoking pipes and drinking tea. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857
Dutchmans pipe species, Aristolochia ruiziana (Aristolochia duchartrei). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe
Aristolochia tricaudata. Critically endangeredDutchmans pipe, Aristolochia tricaudata. Critically endangered. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe
Dutchmans pipe, Aristolochia thwaitesii. Vulnerable. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe
Muchicongo men and many wives outside a hut, Angola. The men drink and smoke cachimbo pipes, while the women pound corn to make the local drink of oualo, brush their hair, etc
Women dancing to drum and pipe music in aWomen dancing the heiva or hula dance to drum and pipe music in a house on Raiatea island, Society Islands. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso after Giovanni Battista Cipriani
Costumes of the Vietnamese, circa 1800Costumes of the Vietnamese: woman in layered tunics of various colors at left, man with parasol, woman in conical hat with pipe, soldier with sabre and shield, etc
Indian servants clothes: hukabardar or hookah pipe bearer, caukidar or watchman, serkar or steward, jamadar or head servant, seated banian or chief servant comptroller, chobdar or mace bearer
An Indian woman seated on a rich carpet attended by servantsAn Indian woman at a gala seated on a rich carpet with containers of betelnut and perfume, attended by an ayah or servants with punya (fan), pawn and snake hookah pipe
Different types of hookah pipes of India: gargara, snake hookah, narikel, cheroot, narikel and gargara. Handcoloured copperplate drawn
Indian men with hookah pipe and fan relaxing under a canopy. Members of the third caste of Vaisyas, or farmers, merchants and officials
The banquet held for Dodwell by the Bishop of Salona in Crisso, Greece. A man bowing before the bishop seated on a cushion, servants bring food to men seated at a round table
Costumes of city dwellers and farmers. Middle-class man in overcoat of sheepskin with half moons over a silk robe, farmers in jackets and trousers
Chinese hydraulic machines including waterwheels and waterpump driven by manpower. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique
Costumes of the natives of Dalagoa Bay, MozambiqueCostumes of the tattooed natives of Dalagoa Bay (Maputo Bay), Mozambique, in front of a village of circular huts. Man smoking tobacco with a curious hookah pipe made of bamboo and cow horn
Houses of the Nubians, early 19th century. Natives smoking pipes and sitting in the shade under palm trees. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient
Furnaces used for experiments and tobacco pipe manufactureFurnaces used by David Mushet for his experiments on iron and steel, and used for tobacco pipe manufacture. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey Jr
Machines for casting and drawing lead pipes. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature
Chinese distiller making Cho-Chou or brandy in a vat on a furnace. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin
Tartar lady walking on a terrace, Qing DynastyTartar lady with tobacco pipe walking on a terrace, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin
Men collecting varnish from the Chinese lacquer treeChinese men collecting varnish from the Chinese lacquer tree, Toxicodendron vernicifluum, using bamboo pipes. One man stirs collected varnish in a pan while another eats from a bowl with chopsticks