My attention was at once arrested by the new and glaring signboards at the shops and hotels, and the streamers with mottos suspended across the streets.
I saw one of these old signboards on exhibition in a museum in Tokyo.
Less than a half century ago signboards could be seen along the highways upon which was written: "If you meet a foreigner, kill him; he who has friendly relations with him is a traitor to his country.
Of signboards portraying artists, but few instances occur; and when they do, they are almost exclusively the property of printsellers.
The universal use of signboards furnished no little employment for the inferior rank of painters, and sometimes even to the superior professors.
Education was spreading fast, and reading had become a very general acquirement; yet it would appear that the exhibitors ofsignboards wished to make up in extravagance what they had lost in use.
In old times, whensignboards flourished, there would have been many reasons for choosing these house-decorations.
The corruptions and misapplications of the old pictorial signboards find a parallel in the modern rendering of our ancient proverbs and sayings.
Aristophanes, Lucian, and other writers, make frequent allusions, which seem to prove that signboards were in use with the Greeks.
Besides these, there are, and have been at various times, excellent signboards in Paris, the artists of which are not known.
This comical exhibition was the greatest glory to which signboards were permitted to attain, as not more than four years after they had a fall from which they never recovered.
Notwithstanding these innovations, the majority of the old objects still survive, in name at least, on the signboards of alehouses and taverns.
We reached Ipswich after a half day of slow progress, for signboards were often missing and the winding lanes bordered by high hedges made cautious driving imperative.
After leaving the vicinity of Dublin, signboards were not to be seen and it was easy to go astray.
Now a man will never realize this unless he turns around and starts back, then he will see, to his amazement, that the signboards have also turned.
What do they prove," continued my uncle, "now that the signboards are turned?
Everywhere there were signboards on which was written "Flieger Schutz!
Certainly it would be possible to make the signboards on the inns serve as texts for a complete history of England.
A host of signboards are attributed to Hogarth or that eccentric and profligate genius, George Morland.
Of existing signboards the most elaborate is the Five Alls at Marlborough, once a very common subject for the tavern picture.
Of Shakespeare's characters, the one best known on the signboards is Sir John Falstaff.
Illustration: The Swan, Felstead] The signboards tell the same tale all through the fifteenth century.
Illustration: Angel Inn, Theale] Many of the White Hart inns retain painted signboards of quite passable quality.
On the signboards it must generally be ascribed to Henry IV.
A student of history, in the signboards affixed to street corners, loves to light on the names of men whose memories are fragrant for deeds of heroism, devotedness, patriotism or learning.
This exhibition of Signboards inspired by Hogarth was the first and most amusing of its kind.
The higher the artistic value of the painting on the signboards was, the more we have to regret that so much art was wasted on such a perishable production.
Just as these little engravings may give us an idea of the old publishers' signs, so we may gain from the club signs some suggestions as to how the old signboards looked.
The “Keys” refer to the Le Camus and Bezons families, as having taken the pictorial emblems of their fatherʼs signboards for their family arms.
To-day you may subvert the freedom, rights, and privileges of a certain town, and to-morrow you must not so much as think of altering the signboards of their shops.
Midwives' signboards represented in each case a matron in a cap rocking a doll under a counterpane trimmed with lace.
No one can have visited any shrine of note without observing the large number of signboards along either side of the main approach, on which are written the sums contributed for the building or repairing of the temple.
The multitude of signboards in astonishing English, in places frequented by English-speaking people, is one of the amusing features of Japan.
Before St. Mark still glow his steeds of brass, But garish signboards glitter in the sun; And up and down the watery alleys pass The snorting steamers.
One of the greatest transformations the streets of London ever saw was when the signboards were taken down.
The signboards were disused in many parts of London before numerals were instituted.
The reader may think I have dwelt somewhat long upon this matter; but I am writing about localization, and these signboards in their day were the only means of identifying the London tradesman.
I daresay London had made away with many of its cumbersome signboards many years before the provincial towns.
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