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  • An old woman with a flower; representing the sense of smell. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • A man with a glass of spirits; representing the sense of taste. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.
  • A woman playing the barrel-organ; representing the sense of hearing. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • A man cuts his finger with a knife; representing the sense of touch. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.
  • An old woman and a child warming their hands from a fire; representing the sense of touch. Line engraving by P. Quast.
  • The fallibility of the senses: above, justice, fame and deceit; below, doctors conducting an autopsy on a cadaver, surrounded by onlookers. Engraving, 1692.
  • An old woman with a plate of vegetables; representing the sense of taste. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • People smelling flowers on the steps of an ornamental garden; representing the sense of smell. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1638.
  • Four men watch, some holding their noses, as a man vomits; representing the sense of smell. Pen and ink drawing by P. Boone, 1651.
  • A woman feeling the tip of an arrow with her finger; representing the sense of touch. Mezzotint by A. van Haecken after J. Amigoni.
  • A woman feeling the tip of an arrow with her finger; representing the sense of touch. Mezzotint by A. van Haecken after J. Amigoni.
  • A man vomiting after overeating and drinking; representing the sense of touch. Engraving by J.J. Kleinschmidt after Jan van de Velde the younger.
  • Organs of sense: fifteen figures including dissections of the tongue, ear, eye, brain and spine. Line engraving by J. Taylor after F. Birnie, 1789.
  • An old physician taking the pulse of a seated patient; representing the sense of touch. Aquatint with etching by J.-B. Le Prince, 1775.
  • A bath-house containing six men and an onlooker, perhaps an allegory of the four humours and five senses. Photolithograph after A. Dürer, c. 1496.
  • A young woman in love clasps her hands against her heart; representing the sense of touch. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds, 1830, after C.-M. Dubufe.
  • A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.
  • A young lady recommending a specific doctor to her aunt, who rejects her idea because of his outrageous dress-sense. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
  • A voyeur watches women taking a bath while above a monk is martyred; representing the sense of sight. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • A voyeur watches women taking a bath while above a monk is martyred; representing the sense of sight. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • A woman plays music to a stag; God condemns Adam and Eve to exile; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • A young man removing a bandage from his hand, while an old woman offers him another; representing the sense of touch. Etching by G. Greux after D. Teniers.
  • Cleveland, the ficitious natural son of Oliver Cromwell, sits in a library reading, but philosophy cannot prevent the conflict within him between the senses and reason. Line engraving, 1751.
  • A man in ragged clothes being bitten by a guard dog at the entrance to a town house; representing the sense of touch. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • A man applying a plaster to his hand outside in a rural setting; representing the sense of touch. Etching by J.P. Le Bas, 1736, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A man looking through a magnifying glass at a picture of a monkey, whose flatulence extinguishes the flame of a candle; representing the pleasures of the sense of sight. Engraving, 17--.
  • A woman in a garden with some flowers; in the background God blows spirit into Adam's body; representing the sense of smell. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • Music being played to a lady, while above an angel blows a trumpet into Jerome's ear; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Music being played to a lady, while above an angel blows a trumpet into Jerome's ear; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • The sense of touch: below, a bespectacled man examines coins and valuables, above, St Thomas puts his finger into the resurrected Christ's side. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.