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Figure 1. ‘Oil painting of a man smoking an opium pipe’ (Science Museum, London). This painting of a man smoking an opium pipe used to hang in the opium den run by Ah Sing (d. 1890), in New Court, Victoria Street, London. Ah Sing’s opium den was the model for the one described in Charles Dickens’ unfinished final story 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'. It was probably the most famous of the dens in Victorian London and Dickens was just one of a number of well known individuals who visited it – presumably for research purposes. Maker: Unknown maker Place made: Europe.

China through the European nose

by Xuelei Huang and Gemma McLean-Carr

François Boucher, La Toilette, 1742, oil on canvas, 52.5 x 66.5 cm, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Inv. no. 58 (1967.4).

Potpourri (pot-pourri)

by Clara May

Figure 5. A physician dressed in protective plague costume. Line engraving after J.J. Manget, 1700-1799. Wellcome Collection, 10075i

by Rose Byfleet

Standglass for 'Extrait Triple Opoponax' from the mid 1800s, white glass with clear ground facets, 16 x 7.5cm, NFA.18100, Norwegian Pharmacy Museum, Norway - CC BY-SA. https://www.europeana.eu/item/746/_011023261166

by Catherine Maxwell