Depictions of Smokers on S tove Tiles (17th–19th centuries)
Depictions of Smokers on S tove Tiles (17th–19th centuries)

Summary/Abstract: Th e article presents depictions of tobacco pipe smokers on stove tiles in Central and EasternEurope. Such depictions are analyzed in the context of the habit’s spread and reception in the area, with specialinterest in who smoked and where. Several analogies and cases of later interventions off er interesting clues onhow their viewers might have reacted to and interacted with images of smokers on stove tiles from the seventeenthto the nineteenth century.

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