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  • Chemistry: symbols of elements and substances. Coloured engraving by H. Ashby, 1799, after W. Jackson.
  • Chemistry: symbols of elements and substances. Coloured engraving by H. Ashby, 1799, after W. Jackson.
  • Beecham's school quiz No 6 : well known signs and symbols...do you know them?.
  • A skull, a skeleton, candles and other symbols of mortality. Engraving attributed to G. Altzenbach, [16--].
  • Angels adoring a monstrance underneath a baldachine which bears Papal and Jesuit symbols. Etching by J. Harrewijn.
  • A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Etching by or after G. Fortuna.
  • A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Etching by or after G. Fortuna.
  • Phrenological chart; with design of head containing symbols of the phrenological 'faculties'. Etching after O.S. Fowler (?).
  • Doctor Cromm talks to a diseased prostitute; surrounded by macabre symbols of contemporary French politics. Lithograph by Félicien Rops.
  • Symbols within triangles symbolise warnings, symbols within squares represent safe activities referring to what people should know about AIDS and what they should and should not do. Colour lithgoraph by Publistyle International for the Commissione Nazionale per la lotta contro l'AIDS, Ministero della Sanità, ca. 1995.
  • A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Woodcut by A. Andreani after G. Fortuna, ca. 1588.
  • Tables of analysis in the moist way, and by the blowpipe, together with the chemical symbols and equivalents / [Edward Brittan].
  • Tables of analysis in the moist way, and by the blowpipe, together with the chemical symbols and equivalents / [Edward Brittan].
  • Tables of analysis in the moist way, and by the blowpipe, together with the chemical symbols and equivalents / [Edward Brittan].
  • Tables of analysis in the moist way, and by the blowpipe, together with the chemical symbols and equivalents / [Edward Brittan].
  • Tables of analysis in the moist way, and by the blowpipe, together with the chemical symbols and equivalents / [Edward Brittan].
  • Tables of analysis in the moist way, and by the blowpipe, together with the chemical symbols and equivalents / [Edward Brittan].
  • Tables of analysis in the moist way, and by the blowpipe, together with the chemical symbols and equivalents / [Edward Brittan].
  • The hand of Fatima (daughter of Muhammad) surrounded by Islamic symbols and used as a good luck charm. Process print.
  • A skull with eyes formed of the male and female symbols, representing sterility attributed to sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph, 196- (?).
  • Aesculapius, representing medicine, receives homage from putti who bring him symbols of botany, natural history, chemistry and anatomy. Engraving by A. Nunzer, 1748.
  • Thomas Parr, said to have died aged 152, with a border depicting three figures and various symbols relating to mortality. Stipple engraving, 1807.
  • An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • A naked couple embrace with the male and female symbols; advertisement for the use of condoms to prevent venereal diseases like AIDS. Lithograph.
  • Chemistry: a chemical laboratory with many workers (above), symbols of elements arranged in a proto-periodic table (?) (below). Engraving by R. Bénard.
  • The sleeping infant Christ is surrounded by the instruments of the Passion and symbols of death; representing the forthcoming Passion. Engraving after G. Reni.
  • 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.
  • The Eucharist venerated by Saint Bonaventure and Saint Anthony of Padua; surrounded by related symbols, texts and doctrines. Etching by F. Villamena, 1598, after Antonio Tempesta.
  • 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.
  • A chemist, surrounded by symbols and instruments of chemistry, advertising Richard Siddall, chemist in London. Etching by R. Clee, ca. 1750, after J. de Lajoue, ca. 1735.