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Five people sitting and standing around a tea-table, one of them a mother with a child. Lithograph by J. Fischer, 1803.

A Chinese tea plantation with workers cleaning the racks on which the leaves are laid. Coloured etching, early 19th century.

A tea plant (Camellia sinensis), its flowers and seeds, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.

Alcoholism in Russia: brawling and starvation as the results of drinking alcoholic drinks, contrasted with prosperity resulting from abstinence from alcohol. Colour lithograph by T. Nemkova, 1990.

A physician taking the pulse of a sick woman, who is surrounded by members of her family. Lithograph.

A man pours tea for a resting Chinese warrior as a kettle steams on the stove beside them. Coloured etching with ornamentation after F. Boucher, early 18th century.

A physician's wife having tea with one of her husbands patients: she enquires if he is feeling better; he retorts that the more he sees the doctor the worse he feels. Process print after G. Belcher, 1929.

Alcoholism in Russia: brawling and starvation as the results of drinking alcoholic drinks, contrasted with prosperity resulting from abstinence from alcohol. Colour lithograph by T. Nemkova, 1989.

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A physician's wife having tea with one of her husbands patients: she enquires if he is feeling better; he retorts that the more he sees the doctor the worse he feels. Process print after G. Belcher, 1929.

Alcoholism in Russia: brawling and starvation as the results of drinking alcoholic drinks, contrasted with prosperity resulting from abstinence from alcohol. Colour lithograph by T. Nemkova, 1989.

Alcoholism in Russia: brawling and starvation as the results of drinking alcoholic drinks, contrasted with prosperity resulting from abstinence from alcohol. Colour lithograph by T. Nemkova, 1990.

A Chinese tea plantation with workers cleaning the racks on which the leaves are laid. Coloured etching, early 19th century.

A tea plant (Camellia sinensis), its flowers and seeds, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.