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  • Colour vision
  • Colour vision
  • Colour vision
  • Colour vision.
  • Ishihara Colour Vision test compiled using retina
  • The vision of Jacob's ladder. Colour lithograph by L. Gruner after N. Consoni after Raphael.
  • A hazy image of a child and figure holding a stick: World sight day in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for Vision 2020, 2009.
  • A mother suffocates her baby; above, her vision of demons torturing her as punishment after her own death. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki Utagawa, 1868.
  • Florence Nightingale: a nurse looking up at a vision of Florence Nightingale as 'the lady of the lamp'. Colour process print after R. Kirchner, 1917.
  • First World War: two soldiers, one badly wounded, being comforted on the battlefield by a vision of Christ. Colour halftone after G. Hillyard Swinstead, 1915.
  • Three grey and yellow faces behind barbed wire with a broken vision of the world above representing the fight against AIDS; an advertisement by the Asociación Ciudadana Anti-SIDA de Guipuzkoa. Colour lithograph by Sagutxo, 1996.
  • A hazy vision of two people behind a message in Catalan about AIDS; an advertisement aimed at youths to talk about AIDS and preventive measures by the Generalitat de Catalunya. Colour lithograph by B[assat Ogilvy], [1993].
  • Christ gives Saint Peter of Alcántara a bowl of food, and reaches for a bottle of water for him, seen in a vision by Saint Teresa of Avila. Colour etching by A. Scacciati, 1758, after A.D. Gabbiani.
  • Gladstone, asleep in a chair next to a fire, has a nightmare vision of Disraeli showing Queen Victoria celebrating Christmas dinner with foreigners, including a Chinese man, a native American, an African man and an Indian man. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 25 December 1886.
  • Theory of colours and vision
  • The dance of death: the vision of skulls. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Coloured engraving.
  • A vision of the first Mayor of London appears to the feasting Aldermen and warns them against luxury. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child and a vision of the instruments of the Passion. Coloured etching by J. Adam after A.D. Gabbiani.
  • A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • A futuristic vision: technology is over-sophisticated, and the masses devote themselves to intellectual pursuits, while the basic needs of society are neglected. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828, after F.A.
  • Cones in the retina - 3D image
  • Cone rich area of the retina - 3D image
  • Section through the fovea
  • Retina showing rods and cones - transverse
  • Visual distortion
  • Sclera (white part) of the human eye
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Human eye with blue iris