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  • A man behind a woman who is combing her hair; representing the sense of sight. Engraving.
  • Looking up from underneath a microscope
  • Retinal ganglion cell
  • 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.
  • Visual distortion
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Brown jumping spider (unknown species)
  • An old woman wearing spectacles; representing the sense of sight. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
  • Colour vision
  • Visual distortion
  • A man caresses a woman; representing the sense of touch. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, c. 1650.
  • Human eye
  • An Optometer on a pillar stand
  • Colour vision
  • The five senses: sight, surrounded by vignettes showing the other senses. Coloured lithograph by Belin.
  • 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--.
  • Human eye with blue iris
  • Retinal ganglion cell
  • Mouse retina
  • Visual distortion
  • A woman looking into a hand-mirror; in the background God shows Adam and Eve the tree of knowledge. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • Contact lens
  • A barber's shop in which men demonstrate the sense of sight. Etching by W. Peeters after C. de Wael.
  • Blood vessels emerging from the optic disc
  • Human eye
  • An Optometer on a pillar stand
  • Colour vision
  • Blood vessels emerging from the optic disc
  • A hazy image of a child and figure holding a stick: World sight day in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for Vision 2020, 2009.
  • 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.