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  • A small case of false eyes, white glass, with blood vessels in red, and vari-coloured lenses. Made by W. Halford of London.
  • A small case of false eyes, white glass, with blood vessels in red, and vari-coloured lenses. Made by W. Halford of London.
  • Ezekiel has a vision of angels and spheres with eyes coasting along the thunderstruck sea. Etching by R. Pranker, 176-, after B. Picart.
  • A sick old woman, sitting supported by pillows as a skeleton pounces aiming his spear at her eyes. Woodcut by Tobias Stimmer, 1580.
  • A man shielding his eyes from the body of a dead AIDS victim; advertisement a mourning procession for AIDS patients in Berlin Colour lithograph.
  • An ornate garden obelisk with women seated on the base shielding their eyes. Etching by J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • A young woman listens with her eyes cast down as her companion plays a harp. Pen and ink drawing by Sir Joseph Noël Paton.
  • A treatise of one hundred and thirteene diseases of the eyes, and eye-liddes. The second time published / with some profitable additions of certaine principles and experiments, by Richard Banister.
  • The hollow eyes of blind Tobit are anointed with fish gall by Tobias. Engraving by S.F. Ravenet, 1767, after R. Earlom after Agostino Carracci.
  • A pair of eyes expressing the character of a solid thinker, unhurried, yet intrepid if required (according to Lavater). Drawing by T. Holloway, ca. 1794.
  • A pair of eyes expressing the character of a solid thinker, unhurried, yet intrepid if required (according to Lavater). Drawing by T. Holloway, ca. 1794.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Tobit anointing his father's eyes with the gall of a fish to cure his blindness. Red chalk drawing by B. Picart, 1725, after A. Carracci.
  • Wakefield Prison in Yorkshire: a man, prisoner number 2517, his eyes are closed and a warder stands behind him; head and shoulders. Photograph, c. 1869.
  • A woman's head and neck; her eyes are closed and her mouth twisted into a grimace. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1864.
  • A red face with volutes as eyes and a downturned mouth, overlaid by a red grid of diagonal lines. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1970.
  • Wakefield Prison in Yorkshire: a man, prisoner number 2517, his eyes are closed and a warder stands behind him; head and shoulders. Photograph, c. 1869.
  • Blindfolded victims having their throats cut outside a prison while a group of monks avert their eyes from this scene of horror. Etching with engraving.
  • A woman's head and shoulders; her eyes are closed and her mouth shows a slight grimace. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, 1864.
  • Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant with flowers resembling the human eye, and (below) a pair of eyes. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.
  • A Chinese man is held on the ground by a man while another is burning his eyes with lime. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Example of two glass eyes, white glass, with blood vessels in red, and vari-coloured lenses, from a small case. Made by W. Halford of London.
  • A standing girl holding one hand up towards the moon and with her other hand shielding her eyes from the sun. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1972.
  • A young woman pressing a half-open book to her heart, her eyes raised upwards, as she undergoes a religious revelation. Colour lithograph after James Sant.
  • A distraught bare-breasted woman with staring eyes, straw in her hair and chained wrists, representing madness. Mezzotint by W. Dickinson, 1775, after R.E. Pine.
  • A standing girl holding one hand up towards the moon and with her other hand shielding her eyes from the sun. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1972.
  • Eyes which express (according to Lavater) a good but weak and thus possibly suspicious character. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Eyes watching out for carcinogenic materials in the workplace. Colour lithograph for the Nederlandse Kankerbestrijding/KWF, ca. 2001.