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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.
  • Four signs of the zodiac: Pisces (the fish), Libra (the scales), Scorpio (the scorpion) and Taurus (the bull). Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.
  • Amasamang, Ghana: Semanu, a medicine man, and his two assistants, all wearing white robes, standing beside a sign advertising his services. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.