Henri Meunier, Rajah, lithograph, 1897 (all pictures: Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich)
Wilhelm Schulz, Tatar coffee house / In a café, pen-and-ink drawing with opaque white, 1905
George Grosz, Waiter, two small beers (coffee house scene), reed pen and coloured chalk, 1915
Ettore Mazzini, Torrefazione Caffè Pernigotti, poster
Turkish couple drinking coffee, porcelain, Nymphenburg circa 1765
Louis Leopold Boilly, François Delpech, Coffee lovers, coloured lithograph, circa 1827, Schmid collection
William Hogarth, Morning, copperplate engraving, 1738
Exotic, sensual and occasionally critical of society.
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