Drank Collection

The man who drank the bands champagne by H. M. Bateman
Illustration by H. M. Bateman showing a man in evening dress quaffing a glass of champagne watched by an astonished orchestra

Gin Lane (engraving)
3648022 Gin Lane (engraving) by Hogarth, William (1697-1764) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Gin Lane. Illustration for Kulturgeschichtliches Bilderbuch aus drei Jahrhunderten by Georg Hirth)

Work, 1852-65 (oil on canvas) (see also 3927271 and 324488)
MAN198054 Work, 1852-65 (oil on canvas) (see also 3927271 and 324488) by Brown, Ford Madox (1821-93); 137x197.3 cm; Manchester Art Gallery, UK; © Manchester Art Gallery

The Russian Agents in Bulgaria, Peasants treated with Drink at the Russian Consulate, Sofia
1624740 The Russian Agents in Bulgaria, Peasants treated with Drink at the Russian Consulate, Sofia, during the Elections (engraving) by Schonberg

The Roman Emperor Caligula entertaining his favourite horse, Incitatus, at supper (engraving)
7148832 The Roman Emperor Caligula entertaining his favourite horse, Incitatus, at supper (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

The Spirit of Empire, drawing for an advertisement for Dewars Scotch whisky (litho)
5997580 The Spirit of Empire, drawing for an advertisement for Dewars Scotch whisky (litho) by Sullivan, Edmund Joseph (1869-1933); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Spirit of Empire)

East End Gin Palace (litho)
582285 East End Gin Palace (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: East End Gin Palace)

The Derby Night at Cremorne (engraving)
610363 The Derby Night at Cremorne (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Derby Night at Cremorne; from The Days Doings)

BLACK WOMAN, 1875-1876 (oil on canvas)
7215227 BLACK WOMAN, 1875-1876 (oil on canvas) by Repin, Ilya Efimovich (1844-1930); State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; (add.info.: Late 1875--early 1876 Oil on canvas L This painting)

Vermouth Superieur, fortified wine label (colour litho)
7153436 Vermouth Superieur, fortified wine label (colour litho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Vermouth Superieur, fortified wine label)

St Crispins Day (engraving)
5997810 St Crispins Day (engraving) by Cruikshank, George (1792-1878); Private Collection; (add.info.: St Crispins Day. Illustration for The Comic Almanack with illustrations by George Cruikshank)

Louis Pasteur (litho)
3093949 Louis Pasteur (litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Louis Pasteur. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Christmas advertisement for Haig Scotch whisky (colour litho)
6001973 Christmas advertisement for Haig Scotch whisky (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Christmas advertisement for Haig Scotch whisky)

From the forest to the laid table (colour litho)
2778188 From the forest to the laid table (colour litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: From the forest to the laid table)

Alcoholism: mottos of the week (chromolitho)
5996072 Alcoholism: mottos of the week (chromolitho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Alcoholism: mottos of the week)

The Mens Bath (engraving)
3646419 The Mens Bath (engraving) by Durer or Duerer, Albrecht (1471-1528) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Mens Bath)

Eau de vie de cidre (chromolitho)
3622449 Eau de vie de cidre (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Eau de vie de cidre. French trade card.); © Look and Learn

Advertisement for Booths Gin (colour litho)
3621615 Advertisement for Booths Gin (colour litho) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Advertisement for Booths Gin.); © Look and Learn

Advertisment for Gordons Gin (colour litho)
3621612 Advertisment for Gordons Gin (colour litho) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Advertisment for Gordons Gin.); © Look and Learn

Advertisement for Courvoisier-Cognac, The Brandy Of Napoleon (colour litho)
3099821 Advertisement for Courvoisier-Cognac, The Brandy Of Napoleon (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Advertisement for Courvoisier-Cognac)

Girl with champagne bottle (colour photo)
3096002 Girl with champagne bottle (colour photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Girl with champagne bottle)

La Civilisation Anglaise - based on Gin (colour litho)
3100101 La Civilisation Anglaise - based on Gin (colour litho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: La Civilisation Anglaise - based on Gin)

The measuring of the specific gravity of alcohol with a hydrometer
5311838 The measuring of the specific gravity of alcohol with a hydrometer; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the measuring of the specific gravity of alcohol with a hydrometer)

Interior view of the factories Byrrh, manufacturer of Vermouth, with the monsters barrels
ELD4965180 Interior view of the factories Byrrh, manufacturer of Vermouth, with the monsters barrels, a Thuir in the Pyrenees Orientales (Interior view of the Byrrh factory)

Students' jam singing near beer barrels. Photography around 1910
IMB4927894 Students' jam singing near beer barrels. Photography around 1910; (add.info.: Students' jam singing near beer barrels. Photography around 1910); © Imagebroker.

Group photo: Invites in a pub. Photography around 1915 Guests in pub, around 1915
IMB4933615 Group photo: Invites in a pub. Photography around 1915 Guests in pub, around 1915; (add.info.: Group photo: Invites in a pub)

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

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

Coffee maker, cafe - Coffee, Coffea arabica, plant showng flowers, berries and bean
FLO4680130 Coffee maker, cafe - Coffee, Coffea arabica, plant showng flowers, berries and bean. Handcoloured lithograph from the National Encyclopaedia, W

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)

Adding hops to boiling beer in brewery, 1885
2604011 Adding hops to boiling beer in brewery, 1885; (add.info.: Adding hops to boiling beer in an American brewery. Wood engraving published 1885).

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

Coffee House, 1851 (wood engraving)
1574620 Coffee House, 1851 (wood engraving); (add.info.: A coffee house, Istanbu, Turkey. Wood engraving c1851.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Coffee House, 1869 (engraving)
1574584 Coffee House, 1869 (engraving); (add.info.: Coffee House in London, England , in the mid-seventeenth century. Engraving, London, 1869.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

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.

A group of drinkers around a barrel with a bottle and glasses and a man sitting a caliphourchon on a parodiant barrel
LUX4719560 A group of drinkers around a barrel with a bottle and glasses and a man sitting a caliphourchon on a parodiant barrel Bacchus

The blowing of the Shofar and the consecration of the wine from Johann Leusden's Philogous Hebraeo-Mixtus
3330066 The blowing of the Shofar and the consecration of the wine from Johann Leusden's Philogous Hebraeo-Mixtus; Universal History Archive/UIG.

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

Origine des locutions : boire rubis sur l'ongle, jusqu'a la derniere goutte
ELD4951643 Origine des locutions : boire rubis sur l'ongle, jusqu'a la derniere goutte -; Private Collection; (add.info.: Origine des locutions: boire rubis sur l'ongle)

L'absinthe c'est la mort, 1905-15
UIG5088197 L'absinthe c'est la mort, 1905-15 by Decoeur, Emile (1876-1953); (add.info.: L'absinthe c'est la mort)

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 wine cellar. Illustration of " The Brownies", legend of the 19th century reproduced in the poem "
IMB4827315 The wine cellar. Illustration of " The Brownies", legend of the 19th century reproduced in the poem " Die Heinzelmannchen zu Koln" by August Kopisch (1799-1853)

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")

Advert for Louis Salignac and Leonin Arnaud. brandy Cognac. 1877
5306272 Advert for Louis Salignac and Leonin Arnaud. brandy Cognac. 1877; Universal History Archive/UIG.

Advert for EM Dubois & Co. St Jean-D'Angely Cognac
5306270 Advert for EM Dubois & Co. St Jean-D'Angely Cognac.; Universal History Archive/UIG.

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"From Champagne to Whisky: A Spirited Journey through Art and History" Step into a world where indulgence knows no bounds, as depicted in H. M. Bateman's iconic illustration, "The man who drank the band's champagne. " Witness the audacious act of a man savoring every drop of luxury. Gin Lane engraving takes us back to an era when alcohol consumption was rampant, revealing the dark side of excessive drinking. It serves as a stark reminder that moderation is key. Even Roman Emperor Caligula couldn't resist entertaining his favorite horse, Incitatus, at supper. This extravagant display showcases how power and excess often go hand in hand. In contrast, Dewars Scotch whisky advertisement portrays "The Spirit of Empire, " capturing the essence of refinement and sophistication associated with this renowned spirit. A toast to craftsmanship. Dive into history with "BLACK WOMAN, " an oil painting that reflects on societal attitudes towards race during the late 19th century while subtly hinting at the role alcohol played within communities. "St Crispins Day" engraving transports us to a time when camaraderie was celebrated over pints shared among comrades-in-arms—a testament to how alcohol has long been intertwined with social bonding. As Christmas approaches, Haig Scotch whisky entices us with its festive advertisement—reminding us that spirits can bring warmth and cheer during cold winter nights. Witness nature's bounty transformed into lavish feasts in "From the forest to the laid table. " This colorful lithograph highlights how alcoholic beverages have accompanied culinary delights throughout history. However, we must acknowledge darker realities too; chromolitho artwork depicting mottos about alcoholism reminds us of its destructive potential if consumed recklessly or excessively. On a lighter note, indulge your senses with Eau de vie de cidre—an exquisite apple brandy captured beautifully in chromolitho form—a drink fit for connoisseurs seeking unique flavors.