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  • Saint Leopold: shop sign for St Leopold's pharmacy, Vienna. Oil painting by E. Nacht, 18--.
  • Saint Leopold: shop sign for St Leopold's pharmacy, Vienna. Oil painting by E. Nacht, 18--.
  • An artist before a crowd painting a shop sign. Lithograph by F. Le Villain, 1822, after H. Bellangé.
  • The doorway into a chemist's shop in Shanghai: there is a sign outside written in both English and Chinese. Photograph.
  • Nepal; herdsmen of the Khumbu, 1986. Three herdsmen stop for refreshments at the Shomare Hotel. The sign above the door of this tea shop reads: 'Wel-come to Shomare Hotel', evidence that westerners pass the door en rout to the high mountains.
  • A green neon-lit pharmacy shop sign on the corner of a street with a message in French: 'There are places for protection on every street corner'; with a sterile needle and a condom advertising pharmacies as the first port of call for protection against AIDS; an advertisement by the Ministére du Travail et des Affaires Sociales, L'Assurance Maladie Sécurité Sociale, Ordre National des Pharmacies and CFES. Colour lithograph.
  • An episode in Dombey and son by Charles Dickens: the interior of "The wooden midshipman", a shop in the City of London for navigational instruments; a boy ("Rob the Grinder") is conversing with a pugilist known as "The Game Chicken". Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • A wig-seller dressing a wig on a stand in his shop; the wig-stands bear the heads of Tory politicians. Wood engraving by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.
  • Two medicine vendors, their wives, cats and dogs arguing about the merits of their antiscorbutic pills. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury, 1774.
  • Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.
  • Several sinister events in a London street. Coloured etching.
  • The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.
  • The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.
  • A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
  • A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
  • People standing outside an apothecary shop in Rotterdam. Lithograph by J.C. d'Armand Gerkens after L.A. Vintcent.
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Matthew Manna, a country apothecary outside his shop. Etching by M. Darly, 1773, after R.St. G. Mansergh.
  • Saint George. Oil painting by a Georgian painter.
  • A barber in his shop preparing to shave a customer. Coloured etching.
  • Advertisement : To all gentlemen and ladies . There are newly arriv'd two monstrous girls, being one of the greatest wonders in nature that was ever seen ; they were born with their backs fasten'd to one another, and the passages of their bodies are both one way ...
  • Advertisement : To all gentlemen and ladies . There are newly arriv'd two monstrous girls, being one of the greatest wonders in nature that was ever seen ; they were born with their backs fasten'd to one another, and the passages of their bodies are both one way ...
  • A barber in Rouen dressing a man's hair. Coloured engraving by G.R. Lewis after himself.
  • Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk: young men on the beach at Gorleston Swimming Club. Photographic postcard by Jackson's Faces, 193-.
  • Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk: young men on the beach at Gorleston Swimming Club. Photographic postcard by Jackson's Faces, 193-.
  • A woman displaying good luck tassels for sale. Watercolour by a Chinese artist, ca. 1800.