Earliest signed work posters & prints

St. Jerome in the Wilderness, c.1450 Giovanni Bellini

In the earliest Tyden Batavian Anonymous

The Earliest Map of the New Netherlands Anonymous

Then And And Now: The Earliest And Latest Locomotive Engines, UK Anonymous

One of the earliest illustrations of smoking Anonymous

Cliff Richard signing an autograph for fans Harry Hammond

Portrait of a Man Holding a Skull, c.1611-12 Frans Hals

A Man Working in a Field, Zodiacal Sign of Aries Workshop of Willem Vrelant

Six copies printed in different colors, signed for dejeuner Castle Haarzuijlens Mathieu Lauweriks

Signatures of 16th and 17th century Scottish clergy and aristocracy Anonymous

The Sign of the Running Footman Anonymous

Working in a Vineyard, Zodiacal Sign of Pisces Workshop of the Master of James IV of Scotland

Small landscape with tang-fishermen, c. 1889 Anonymous

A Morning at Tattersall's Robert Polhill Bevan

Man stencilling signs for tram cars at Charlton Central Repair Depot, London, 1932 Unknown

A View near Matlock, Derbyshire with Figures Working beneath a Wooden Conveyor Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

Interior of an office of works, 1852 Henry Carpenter

Signe, 1912 Anders Leonard Zorn

Smiling happy businessman pen in hand signing papers at desk Anonymous

The Sign Post William Tatton Winter

Girl on Horseback with a Boy and a Dog Joseph Edgar Boehm

Coloured Forms III, 1913 August Macke

The Harvest Moon Samuel Palmer

Augustinus. Basel, Joh. de Amerbach, 1495 Anonymous

Self-portrait of John Lutma Young in a niche Johannes Lutma II

Virgin and Child William Blake

Captain Winthrop at Big Bethel Anonymous

Portrait of George Washington 1772 Charles Willson Peale

The Lady of Shalott John Atkinson Grimshaw

Earliest Gramophone Model Anonymous

William Henry Bragg, English physicist, early 20th century Unknown

One of the earliest maps of the Straits of Magellan Portuguese School

Goldie Gardner signing autographs at the Irish Grand Prix, Phoenix Park, Dublin, 1930 Bill Brunell

Development of a Bottle in Space, 1912 Umberto Boccioni

Girl with Ranunculus, 1914 Theo van Doesburg

Christ and the sign of the fig tree Pieter Mortier