M0007413: Movable models of human eyes

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Movable models of human eyes (ivory and metal).

Photograph of movable models of human eyes made of ivory and metal, possibly Italian and French and used for demonstration in the 17th and 18th centuries, reproduced from a copy of Peckham, John: Perspectiua communis.... Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 16th October 1935 (PHO 5399).

6 September 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 5399.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.