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  • Exeat signs of the Ding army. Four carved and painted signs.
  • Exeat signs of the Ding army. Four carved and painted signs.
  • A design for a pharmacy label with snakes, an alligator, symbols and urns. Pen drawing.
  • A conjurer casting spells with his wand and fire surrounded by a kneeling man and demons within the magic circle. Engraving by J. Brown after W.M. Craig, 1813.
  • The interior of a chemical laboratory with six people working in it (above), a table of symbols (below). Coloured line engraving after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A witch. Etching by G. Petrini after D. Teniers.
  • A Chinese physician sitting on a throne (?) surrounded by fruits, flowers and insects. Engraving.
  • A Turkish oracle; the torture wheel of Pope Pius VI. Engraving.
  • A witch at her cauldron surrounded by monsters. Etching by Jan van de Velde II, 1626.
  • A witch at her cauldron surrounded by monsters. Etching by Jan van de Velde II, 1626.
  • A witch at her cauldron surrounded by monsters. Etching by Jan van de Velde II, 1626.
  • A safety pin with the message in German: 'Symbol of security: Safer Sex''; an advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA and Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.
  • Four scenes all involving water: trial by water, people using divination rods, and different types of rods. Engraving.
  • Male and female symbols engaged in a variety of unsafe and safe activities; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. Colour lithograph, 1987.
  • The sorcerer Isman with a wand in an enchanted forest: an episode in Gerusalemme liberata by Tasso. Wood engraving by J.A. Faxardo after J.J. Lecurieux, 1838.
  • White male and female symbols on red arranged as if the right side of a clock with the male symbol as the hands; with a message in Portuguese about how AIDS is transmitted through [unprotected] sexual contact; an advertisement by the Comissào Nacional Luta Contra la SIDA, Ministério de Saúde. Colour lithograph by Latina, ca. 1995.
  • Two personified male and female symbols, the male wearing a condom with a rope bearing the label 'de sexo seguro'; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas and Centro Nacional de Educacion para la salud Ministerio de Salud Publica, Cuba. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • White male and female symbols on red arranged as if the right side of a clock with the male symbol as the hands; with a message in Portuguese about how AIDS is transmitted through [unprotected] sexual contact; an advertisement by the Comissào Nacional Luta Contra la SIDA, Ministério de Saúde. Colour lithograph by Latina, ca. 1995.
  • A grotto containing a magic circle, books and mythical creatures. Etching by J. Vezzani, 1728, after G. Rocchetti after P. Righini.
  • The green outline of a condom inside which the male symbol points upwards representing the man's penis next to the symbol for bisexuality; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the RFSU, Norwegian Red Cross, The Norwegian Confederation of Sports and the Norwegian AIDS Association. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The green outline of a condom inside which the male symbol points upwards representing the man's penis next to the symbol for bi-sexuality; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the RFSU, Norwegian Red Cross, The Norwegian Confederation of Sports and the Norwegian AIDS Association. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • The green outline of a condom inside which the male symbol points upwards representing the man's penis next to the symbol for bi-sexuality; with running figure of Cupid and the words AIDS, SIDA, HIV within the condom; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the RFSU, Norwegian Red Cross, The Norwegian Confederation of Sports and the Norwegian AIDS Association. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Arabic geomantic signs, wheel of life and death, the zodiac wheel and the Veronica. Engraving.
  • Many figures including a woman identified as Venus gambling with Cupid, evidence of torture and tumult. Engraving.
  • Symbols and talismans from Hindu, pagan and Jewish religions illustrating superstition. Engraving.
  • A shaman banging a drum and dancing invoke spirits to cure a sick man. Engraving by S. Davenport.
  • A shaman banging a drum and dancing to invoke spirits to cure a sick man. Engraving by S. Davenport.
  • Circe sits with books and wand; to right, men transformed into animals. Etching by G.B. Castiglione, 165-.
  • Circe sits with books and wand; to right, men transformed into animals. Etching by G.B. Castiglione, 165-.
  • Or Tibetan 114 - Bloodletting chart, Tibet