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An opium den.
Opium, especially in its liquid form Laudanum, was widely used in the 18th and 19th century. It is startling how many actually were opium addicts at that time.
If anyone is interested in this subject, I recommend reading the 'confessions of an english opium-eater'. If you get beyound the quiete lengthy style of writing (it was written in the 1820';), it is really an interesting time-document.

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Hey this one is brilliant, has a very surreal and slightly hallucinatory atmosphere that mirrors (I imagine) the experience of being on its subject matter. I get the feeling that even if you weren't a resident in a place like this, and were just a visitor, you'd still get that kind of nauseous, otherworldly feel, like a building completely cut off from the outside world, and perhaps with it, reality. Pardon my long-winded response, it's just the sense I got from viewing this painting :D