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  • By the King : A proclamation for adiouring the Terme [on account of the plague; also forbidding any citizen from seeking the royal touch as a cure for the King's Evil. 9 Sept. 1630]
  • Two black silhouette heads touch but are divided by a red question mark; from afar, the image resembles a black suit on a red hanger; representing uncertainty about AIDS. Colour silk screen print after J.-C. Blais, 1993.
  • Reach out and touch : people living with HIV and AIDS : procession with flowers : Sunday 23rd August 1992 : Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, London ... for a world without discrimination / Brent HIV Centre, Kiss FM.
  • A pink and an orange hand reaching out to touch the AIDS red ribbon in the centre; an advertisement for the AIDS Culture Forum in Yokohama and the Minnesota AIDS Pledgewalk in 1994. Colour lithograph by Alex Boies, 1994.
  • The arms of black and white men reach out to touch a phone; an advertisement for weekly phone groups for gay men by the group Aries to help promote safer sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph by Woodfin, 1992.
  • The arms of black and white men reach out to touch a phone; an advertisement for weekly phone groups for gay men by the group Aries to help promote safer sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph by Woodfin, 1992.
  • A pink and an orange hand reaching out to touch the AIDS red ribbon in the centre; an advertisement for the AIDS Culture Forum in Yokohama and the Minnesota AIDS Pledgewalk in 1994. Colour lithograph by Alex Boies, 1994.
  • A touch-tone telephone on which the hash button is replaced by the logo of a cancer relief charity in the Netherlands, representing a helpline for questions about cancer. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Kankerbestrijding Koningin Wilhelmina Fonds, 2001.
  • The black hands of a man and woman touch by their finger tips within the 'o' of the word 'one'; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph by the Central Health Education Bureau in New Delhi, February 1991.
  • Reach out and touch people living with HIV and AIDS : procession with flowers Sunday, 23rd August '92 Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, London ... / initiated by the Brent HIV Centre and organised and presented in conjunction with KISS FM.
  • Abraham Bosse, "Tactus, le Touche"
  • A tortoise climbs up a female figure as she reaches out to a bird; in the background Adam and Eve are chased from Eden by the archangel Michael with his sword; representing the sense of touch. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • Two people reach out to touch the tree of life and hope surrounded by dragonflies, frogs, birds and a butterfly representing an Aboriginal depiction of the cycle of life and the role people must play to ensure an AIDS free future. Colour lithograph by Zane Saunders, March 1993.
  • The index fingers of two hands touch, one painted silver, the other gold with the words 'love without fear' in Finnish, and partly showing in Chinese and Arabic; an advertisement for a free handbook about HIV and AIDS by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • Who's going to make your customers a soft touch? : Battery Philishave - with an exciting new promotion ... Ladyshave - with a national TV campaign : starting April 6th for 8 weeks - masisve TV campaign for Philips shavers / Philips Small Appliances Division, Drury Lane, Hastings, Sussex TN34 1XN.
  • Who's going to make your customers a soft touch? : Battery Philishave - with an exciting new promotion ... Ladyshave - with a national TV campaign : starting April 6th for 8 weeks - masisve TV campaign for Philips shavers / Philips Small Appliances Division, Drury Lane, Hastings, Sussex TN34 1XN.
  • Who's going to make your customers a soft touch? : Battery Philishave - with an exciting new promotion ... Ladyshave - with a national TV campaign : starting April 6th for 8 weeks - masisve TV campaign for Philips shavers / Philips Small Appliances Division, Drury Lane, Hastings, Sussex TN34 1XN.
  • New size : Crompton's Black Currant Emulsion : "it touches the tickle".
  • Seal of St Giles of Solop. it bears the figure of a Hind, by whose milk St Giles was supported in his desert. The squarish figure above may have denoted, but on this conjecture we do not insist; the clack-dish or alms basket with a clapper, which lepers were obliged to employ in begging charity standing "afar off", lest their touch should pollute the benevolent.
  • Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes, or Kings-Evil-swellings : Together with the royal gift of healing, or cure thereof by contact or imposition of hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England, continued with their admirable effects, and miraculous events; and concluded with many wonderful examples of cures by their sacred touch / All which are succinctly described by John Browne.
  • Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes, or Kings-Evil-swellings : Together with the royal gift of healing, or cure thereof by contact or imposition of hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England, continued with their admirable effects, and miraculous events; and concluded with many wonderful examples of cures by their sacred touch / All which are succinctly described by John Browne.
  • Christ appearing to the apostle Thomas, who touches his stigmata. Engraving by G. Huret, 1664, after himself.
  • Christ appearing to the apostle Thomas, who touches his stigmata. Engraving by E. Schäffer after P. Veit.
  • A log fire with a guard in front, which a little boy touches with his rattle. Colour lithograph.
  • A log fire with a guard in front, which a little boy touches with his rattle. Colour lithograph.