Alcool Collection

Old Man with a glass of wine
BAL23866 Old Man with a glass of wine by Courbet, Gustave (1819-77); Mayor Gallery, London, UK; French, out of copyright

Writing method by Dubus and Lemaire, c.1880-1900 (printing)
8712993 Writing method by Dubus and Lemaire, c.1880-1900 (printing); 22 x 17 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: in "Writing method in relation to the teaching of reading by F)

The morning after the Saint Firmin Festival, New York 1875 (engraving)
8679737 The morning after the Saint Firmin Festival, New York 1875 (engraving) by Riou, Edouard (1833-1900); 15,6x11,6 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: The morning after the Saint Firmin Festival)

Workers' holiday day, meals and leisure - Work men's holiday - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo
CSO4980219 Workers' holiday day, meals and leisure - Work men's holiday - Japan 1880-1910 - Hand coloured photo; (add.info.: Workers' holiday day)

Hop, Humulus lupulus. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London
FLO4671640 Hop, Humulus lupulus. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835

Literature. Almanac by Jean Raisin "John Grape" for 1854. Poster by Nadar, France, 1853. (poster)
3434619 Literature. Almanac by Jean Raisin "John Grape" for 1854. Poster by Nadar, France, 1853. (poster); (add.info.: Litterature. Coll. Part. Literature)

The National Guards in the Guards, drinking with the cantiniere, liquor dealer and playing cards, smoking the pipe
FLO4718613 The National Guards in the Guards, drinking with the cantiniere, liquor dealer and playing cards, smoking the pipe, some are asleep - Eau forte after an illustration by Victor Auver

Duties of the child at school: Duties of Masters and Bosses to Servants and Workers
DUV4212848 Duties of the child at school: Duties of Masters and Bosses to Servants and Workers. "Good masters make good servants." Engraving in " The unique book of morality

Porter brewery, powered by a steam-engine, late 18th century. Showing reservoir, steam engine, malt lofts, mill, pump
FLO4593475 Porter brewery, powered by a steam-engine, late 18th century. Showing reservoir, steam engine, malt lofts, mill, pump, malt binns, rowser shaft, chimney, copper and coolers

Chinese seller of sugar hares or mooncakes at the 4th moon, and truck to carry Chinese wine, beer brewed from millet
FLO4590575 Chinese seller of sugar hares or mooncakes at the 4th moon, and truck to carry Chinese wine, beer brewed from millet, Qing Dynasty

Hodge and Roaf accuse each other of leaving a pot of piss in place of a jug of ale
FLO4718072 Hodge and Roaf accuse each other of leaving a pot of piss in place of a jug of ale. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Sanders after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (John Collier)

Old Darby with empty tankard and Joan with her tobacco pipe. Copperplate engraving after a satirical illustration by
FLO4718042 Old Darby with empty tankard and Joan with her tobacco pipe. Copperplate engraving after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (John Collier) (1708-1786)

Indigenes Chamarro d'Agagna (Guam Island), distilling alcohol and costumes of ritual dancers (Mariana Islands)
FLO4636298 Indigenes Chamarro d'Agagna (Guam Island), distilling alcohol and costumes of ritual dancers (Mariana Islands, USA)

A drunken brawl at an Irish wake in St. Giles slum. The Wake, or last appearance of Teddy O'Rafferty
FLO4619070 A drunken brawl at an Irish wake in St. Giles slum. The Wake, or last appearance of Teddy O'Rafferty, a scene in the Holy Land

Cocktail
1996360 Cocktail; (add.info.: 40 cocktails celebres. Coll. Part. Lifestyle. 40 famous cocktails. Engraving by John Boland, USA, ca 1930.); Photo © CCI.

Monster, 19th century (engraving)
2102134 Monster, 19th century (engraving); (add.info.: Literature. Monster. Barrel shaped body. Engraving (facsimile) in: Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The Capricious Dreams of Pantagruel)

Hammock, rattan basketball, cassava beer-fermenting net, and other utensils made by the Island Carib or Kalinago
FLO4621597 Hammock, rattan basketball, cassava beer-fermenting net, and other utensils made by the Island Carib or Kalinago people, West Indies

Steam engines: Jonathan Hornblower's compound steam engine, Edmund Cartwright's alcohol engine
FLO4593271 Steam engines: Jonathan Hornblower's compound steam engine, Edmund Cartwright's alcohol engine and Arthur Woolf's high-pressure compound steam engine, 18th and 19th century

Courtesans playing shamisen to entertain a customer drinking sake in the pleasure quarters. Kamuro maids serve sake
FLO4630703 Courtesans playing shamisen to entertain a customer drinking sake in the pleasure quarters. Kamuro maids serve sake

The joyful life in the 16th century: cabaret scene
LSE4104235 The joyful life in the 16th century: cabaret scene; Private Collection; (add.info.: The joyful life in the 16th century: cabaret scene); Photo © Leonard de Selva.

Letter V: distribution of wine. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R
DUV4209472 Letter V: distribution of wine. Engraving of "The soldier's alphabet". E.R. Halt it! , publisher, Paris, around 1916

Elinour Rummin (Eleanor Rumming), the famous Tudor ale-wife of England. Title page to John Skelton's poem, 1624
FLO4636795 Elinour Rummin (Eleanor Rumming), the famous Tudor ale-wife of England. Title page to John Skelton's poem, 1624

Scene at a tavern in Andalusia, Spain, mid-19th century. A seated man with jug of wine invites a traveler inside
FLO4646378 Scene at a tavern in Andalusia, Spain, mid-19th century. A seated man with jug of wine invites a traveler inside

English dandies at a wine tasting in a vault, 1820. Tom, Jerry and Logic tasting Wine in the Wood at the London Docks
FLO4662097 English dandies at a wine tasting in a vault, 1820. Tom, Jerry and Logic tasting Wine in the Wood at the London Docks

Food and Beverage. Wine making: the cellar of the Clos Vougeot and the old burgundian press
3434930 Food and Beverage. Wine making: the cellar of the Clos Vougeot and the old burgundian press. Engraving in: Grands hommes et grands faits de l'industrie, France

Food and Beverage. Champagne making: sectionplan of the Moet et Chandon cellars
3434925 Food and Beverage. Champagne making: sectionplan of the Moet et Chandon cellars. Engraving in: Grands hommes et grands faits de l'industrie, France, c.1880 (engraving); (add.info.: Coll)

Food and Beverage. Brewery. Mill used for grinding the malt. Engraving in
3434918 Food and Beverage. Brewery. Mill used for grinding the malt. Engraving in: Grands hommes et grands faits de l'industrie, France, c.1880 (engraving); (add.info.: Coll. Part)

Food and Beverage. Absinthe Robette. Poster by Henri Privat Livemont, Belgium, 1896. (poster)
3434565 Food and Beverage. Absinthe Robette. Poster by Henri Privat Livemont, Belgium, 1896. (poster) by Privat-Livemont, Henri (1861-1936); (add.info.: Absinthe Robette. Coll. Part)

Science. Chemistry. Wine still of Chaptal, 1720 Engraving in: Grands hommes et grands faits de l'industrie, France
3434913 Science. Chemistry. Wine still of Chaptal, 1720 Engraving in: Grands hommes et grands faits de l'industrie, France, c.1880 (engraving); (add.info.: Sciences. Coll. Part. Science)

Yeddart and Hodge in a jealous fight over a pot of ale. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Sanders after a satirical
FLO4718061 Yeddart and Hodge in a jealous fight over a pot of ale. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Sanders after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (John Collier) (1708-1786)

Two drunks at a table, one raising a glass of wine to his inebriated, sleeping companion
FLO4717914 Two drunks at a table, one raising a glass of wine to his inebriated, sleeping companion. On the table a letter from Lord Bute

Agricultural work: the harvest, a peasant trampling the grapes while drinking a cup of wine
VEN5028105 Agricultural work: the harvest, a peasant trampling the grapes while drinking a cup of wine. Miniature depicting the month of September from a psalter, Biblioteca estense de Modene

Fashionable dandies and ladies dancing a quadrille in a park. Life on Tip-toe
FLO4686820 Fashionable dandies and ladies dancing a quadrille in a park. Life on Tip-toe, or Dick Wildfire Quadrilling it in the Salon de Mars in the Champs Elysees

Hindering Choice. Three women in frilled dresses flirt with a waiter in a long apron at a cafe
FLO4677297 Hindering Choice. Three women in frilled dresses flirt with a waiter in a long apron at a cafe. Women no longer drink wine because of their delicate nerves, but they quaff kirsch

Pompe a beer - Views and elevations of an 18th century beer pump with levers, taps and pipes contained in a cabinet
FLO4685686 Pompe a beer - Views and elevations of an 18th century beer pump with levers, taps and pipes contained in a cabinet. Copperplate engraving by Mutlow after an illustration by J. Farey Jr

The alcohol leeds to the doom, 1919 (poster)
2435383 The alcohol leeds to the doom, 1919 (poster) by Foldes, Imre (1881-1948); (add.info.: Coll. Part. Hungary. Hungarian Soviet Republic. "The alcohol leeds to the doom")

Cognac label Guitton Figerou, c.1890 (print)
2069119 Cognac label Guitton Figerou, c.1890 (print); (add.info.: Guitton Figerou, etiquette de Cognac, France, vers 1890. Coll. Part. Food and Beverage)

Ice mountains built near St. Petersburg for carnival, circa 1800, with people enjoying ice slides
FLO4576661 Ice mountains built near St. Petersburg for carnival, circa 1800, with people enjoying ice slides and hot drinks made of sugar or honey and pepper by Ferris, near the Bolchoi Theatre)

Letter: X (Xeres). Recreative alphabet. Chromolithography, undated (ca. 1920)
DUV4203863 Letter: X (Xeres). Recreative alphabet. Chromolithography, undated (ca. 1920). Offered by "La Samaritaine de Nancy"

Hops, Humulus lupulus (hops) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's
FLO4700562 Hops, Humulus lupulus (hops) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1798.; (add.info.: Hops)

Letter D Distillator (spirits, liqueurs, perfumes). Engraving in " Instructive abecedaire des arts et
DUV4211442 Letter D Distillator (spirits, liqueurs, perfumes). Engraving in " Instructive abecedaire des arts et metiers"

The king. The king sits in front of his meal at a well covered table, under a dais dotted with lily flowers
FLO4675590 The king. The king sits in front of his meal at a well covered table, under a dais dotted with lily flowers. Death presents itself as an esong, and probably offers the king his last drink

English dandies slumming it incognito with Peg, Massa Piebald and a black one-legged fiddler in a beggars bar in St
FLO4662117 English dandies slumming it incognito with Peg, Massa Piebald and a black one-legged fiddler in a beggars bar in St. Giles

English Georgian dandies with world champion bareknuckle boxer Tom Cribb. Cribb's Parlour
FLO4661979 English Georgian dandies with world champion bareknuckle boxer Tom Cribb. Cribb's Parlour: Tom introducing Jerry and Logic to the Champion of England

Toby stealing a jug of ale from Hodge and Roaf and leaving a pot of piss in its place
FLO4718094 Toby stealing a jug of ale from Hodge and Roaf and leaving a pot of piss in its place. Copperplate engraving after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (John Collier) (1708-1786)

Two ugly rustics enjoying a tankard of beer. Copperplate engraving after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin
FLO4717835 Two ugly rustics enjoying a tankard of beer. Copperplate engraving after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (John Collier) (1708-1786) from Human Passions Delineated, John Haywood

Three friends enjoying true contentment from a single bottle of wine. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Sanders after a
FLO4718168 Three friends enjoying true contentment from a single bottle of wine. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Sanders after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (John Collier) (1708-1786)

Food and Beverage. Winemaking in the Bordelais, removing the grapes from the clusters
3434900 Food and Beverage. Winemaking in the Bordelais, removing the grapes from the clusters. Engraving in: Grands hommes et grands faits de l'industrie, France

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"From the Old Man's Wisdom to the Joyful Laughter: A Historical Journey through Alcool" Step back in time and witness the allure as we explore captivating moments captured throughout history. In an enchanting illustration from 1890, an old man with a glass of wine in hand exudes wisdom and sophistication, reminding us of the timeless pleasure found in a simple sip. Transport yourself to Paris, circa 1955, where the Wine Warehouse in Bercy stands tall on Cours Saint-Emilion. This black and white photograph captures the essence of this iconic location, where countless bottles have been stored and savored over generations. Delve into literature's embrace with an engraving from "Alphabet, " printed by Charles Unsinger for Alphonse Lemerre in 1875. The letter B reveals Breton, Belier, Drinker - words that evoke images of conviviality and indulgence. Witness a powerful moment at "The Banquet of Lyon" as Edouard Drumont concludes his speech amidst thunderous applause. This engraving from La Libre Parole in July 1893 immortalizes Drumont's nationalist fervor while highlighting how they are fuel both celebration and controversy. Paul Verlaine's love affair with absinthe comes alive through a poignant black-and-white photograph taken at Café Francois 1er in Paris during 1892. His contemplative gaze reflects both inspiration and introspection often associated with this potent elixir. Celebrate freedom as Prohibition ends with a jubilant scene captured in Chicago during 1933. Black-and-white photographs depict joyous crowds raising their glasses high to toast newfound liberation from alcohol restrictions. An advertisement for Pruna transports us to vibrant hues reminiscent of yesteryear. This colorful lithograph entices viewers with promises of delightful flavors encapsulated within each bottle—a visual feast for the eyes.