Pipes Collection (page 11)

Frogs Race on Snails
Three frogs mounted on snails race each other

The Love Letter by Charles Buchel
Illustration by Charles Buchel (1872-1950) young woman sits under a tree in a woodland glade to read a love letter while a faun plays pan pipes close by

The Organ Blower
Early or unsophisticated organs rely on manual power to supply the air for the pipes; this youth is pumping air in an English parish church

PIPE & HOE
This dependable looking chap partakes of a spot of gardening while he enjoys his pipe. He wife is no doubt indoors knitting him another piece of warm apparel

Pipe & Tractor
A lovely beige, knitted windjacket just the thing for smoking a pipe in while out ploughing the fields! Worn with green trousers & red tie, its smart, yet practical

German Drinkers C18
A rather dissipated group of gentlemen drinking beer from tankards and smoking pipes at German court. A practical joker sets a bear cub onto a reveller, whose wig comes off!

German Pipe Smokers C18
Gentlemen drinking beer from tankards and smoking pipes at German court. A practical joker sets a bear cub onto a reveller, whose wig comes off!

Crane, Floras Feast
FLORAs FEAST: A MASQUE OF FLOWERS Title page featuring a pipe-playing figure

Myth / Classical Myth / Pan
He teaches the young Apollo to play the pan pipes

St Cecilia / Raphael
SAINT CECILIA Roman saint and martyr, patron saint of musicians, carrying a portative organ while angels sing in the clouds above

Pan & Syrinx
The Greek god Pan pursues the Arcadian nymph Syrinx who prays to be changed into a reed; she is, and Pan makes his pipes out of her

Gentleman Smoking Pipe
A boy asks of a smartly- dressed man sitting in an armchair reading a newspaper and smoking a pipe, What is a gentleman? The reply is, One who smokes Dunhill

Standpipe 1920S
A man fills a bucket from a public standpipe in an urban street

New York Reservoir
South Gate House, New Reservoir, during construction showing the pipes which will carry water to the people of New York

Man Smoking on Train
A man wearing round spectacles and smoking a pipe is engrossed in reading a book while he makes his train journey

Pan Plays his Pipes
A maiden is enchanted by the sweet pipe music of Pan. Pan was half-man, half goat and the protector of shepherds and their flocks

Native American Smoking
Native American man smoking a pipe

US Indians Smoking Pipes
Native Americans gathering and smoking

Father Smoking a Pipe
Family alarmed by sight of father smoking a pipe

Costume / Etruria
A man and woman of Etruria (Ancient Rome): he plays a double flute, she carries a dish of fruit

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

Arabs Sabotage Oil Pipes
Arabs sabotage oil pipes

Smoking Club 1793 Pipes
A SMOKING CLUB A play on the word smoke which also means to mock someone : here the political antagonists are depicted attacking each other

London Gas Company, Old Kent Road: the condensers (very large pipes)

Pan with Pan Pipes
Pan with his pan pipes

Tobacco Satire 1630
Three elegant chaps sit smoking around a table, as a man in the garb of a jester vomits profusely

Kastners Pyrophone
Frederic Kastners instrument is a kind of organ, with keyboard and pipes, but the sound is produced by flames within the pipes

HENRY IV AT THE GLOBE
Masked and pipe-smoking ladies in the " Pit" watching a performance of Shakespeares " Henry IV"

Smoking Contest
Table Mountain, South Africa, is rarely without a tablecloth of cloud which is said to have been created when Dutch settler Van Hunks had a smoking contest with the Devil

Long Pipe 1836
Decadent gent smoking a long exotic looking oriental pipe converses with a cohort back from a night on the tiles

Fire Motor-Cycle / Sidecar
A motor-cycle fire-fighting unit, with a sidecar accommodating 500 feet of hose standpipes, branch-pipes, turncocks and tools

Hodges Manual Engine
Hodges manual Fire-engine. It was presented by the inhabitants of Lambeth to Mr F Hodges, a local distiller who maintained an efficient fire- brigade at his own expense!

Oriental Pipes
A variety of Oriental and Asian pipes

Pipes from China, Japan
Smoking devices from China, Indo-China and Japan

Pipes from India, Persia
Smoking devices from India, Persia and other Asian countries

Man Smoking a Pipe
A portrait of Aesop, the Drunken Rhyming Cobler (sic) of Eton smoking a clay pipe

Sioux Pipes
A variety of Sioux pipes

Lighting a Pipe
Gentlemen lighting their pipes using a pipe lighter

PAN DANCES
Pan (also known as FAUNUS) pipes and dances with nymphs and satyrs

Nat American Pipes
Calumets (= peace-pipes) and pipes of Native American peoples of Arizona, New Mexico and thereabouts

Nat Aerican Pipes
Ornamental pipes of the Native American (probably Comanche) peoples in the esert states of western America

Church Choir Singing
A church choir of boys and girls singing joyfully

Jean Bart Smokes
The French admiral Jean Bart depicted smoking a long clay pipe

Smoking Pipes
French officers off-duty

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