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  • Signs of the zodiac: Libra, the scales. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • Signs of the zodiac: Libra, the scales. Gouache painting by an Persian artist.
  • Scales on a mosquito leg (Anopheles stephensi)
  • Francis Shillington-Scales. Photograph by J. Palmer Clarke.
  • Francis Shillington-Scales. Photograph by J. Palmer Clarke.
  • A woman with scales on her upper body and grossly enlarged lower limbs. Watercolour, 1695.
  • A woman with scales on her upper body and grossly enlarged lower limbs. Watercolour, 1695.
  • Chinese opium scales: the violin shaped cases are typical and the ivory beams are not uncommon;
  • Scales specially adapted for weighing livestock. Engraving, late eighteenth century.
  • A woman holding a sword and the scales of justice; representing jurisprudence. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Various gold trinkets, pieces of gold jewelry, gold amulets, stools, gold nuggets and scales for measuring gold. Engraving.
  • A female figure holding a pair of scales, resting her foot on a footstool; representing justice. Etching, c. 1736.
  • A woman bearing a sword and measuring scales; representing justice. Engraving by P. Ghigi after L. Agricola after Raphael.
  • A market in which heavy barrels and sacks are weighed on scales. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger Frères after Ferdinand Séré.
  • Thomas Jones, a boy with icthyosis, a skin disease that resembles fish scales. Coloured lithograph by J. Perry, 1841.
  • Optics: colour scales for violet and yellow. Colour mezzotint [?] by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868, after J. Silbermann.
  • A bespectacled monkey dressed as human is teaching a class room full of dogs musical scales. Etching by Z. Notermann.
  • Snake anatomy: ventral view of snake with scales; ventral view of internal organs; view of open mouth. Engraving, ca. 1778.
  • Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: room with bottles, measuring scales and weights, possibly the pharmacy. Photograph, 1916.
  • A seated young man with clenched fists, leaning against an ornate table. Photograph by A.E. Scales.
  • Left, a street vendor weighing food on the weighing scales; right, a knife sharpener (?) at work. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Four signs of the zodiac: Pisces (the fish), Libra (the scales), Scorpio (the scorpion) and Taurus (the bull). Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • The archangel Michael, holding a flaming sword and the scales of justice; in heaven the angels kneel before Christ; representing the Day of Judgement. Woodcut.
  • A woman stands behind the counter of a butcher's shop in France weighing meat on the scales for a customer. Etching by L. Lhermitte, 1881.
  • A woman stands behind the counter of a butcher's shop in France weighing meat on the scales for a customer. Etching by L. Lhermitte, 1881.
  • Scales bearing fruit and many people: family planning in Madagascar. Colour lithograph by Madagascan Family Planning Association, 1986.
  • A boy with a variety of icthyosis, a skin disease, which in this case resembles the scales of an alligator. Stipple engraving by R.W. Sievier, 1818.
  • Two men at a shop counter in a tea and coffee retail shop using scales to measure out coffee beans. Engraving by G. Scott, 1805, after Bell.
  • New species of man ... : now exhibiting at Mr. Laxton's Rooms, 23, New Bond Street. This young man is 30 years of age, covered with scales ...
  • A baby and a man being weighed on scales: dosing schedule for Artemether-lumefantrine: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.