Eye Collection (page 5)

Portrait of Jeanne Duval, mid 19th century. Artist: Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Portrait of Jeanne Duval, mid 19th century. From a private collection

Jacob Fights the Angel, 1660. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Jacob Fights the Angel, 1660. From the Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Tobit and Anna, 1626. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Tobit and Anna, 1626. From the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Descartes idea of the hydraulic action of the nerves, 1692. French philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) believed nerves were hollow, provided with valves

Rene Descartes diagram of the human brain and eye, 1692. From Opera Philosophica by Rene Descartes. (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1692). Originally published in his Tractatus de homine. (Paris, 1664)

Rene Descartes illustration of the co-ordination of the senses, 1692. A visual stimulus travelling from the eye to the pineal gland, H, stops attention being given to an olfactory stimulus

Rene Descartes idea of vision, showing the function of the eye, optic nerve and brain, 1692. From Opera Philosophica by Rene Descartes. (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1692)

Descartes representation of the antagonistic eye muscles, 1692. When E is relaxed A is innervated. Rene Decartes (1596-1650)

Light, c1850. Educational plate showing reflection and refraction, light travelling in straight lines, a burning mirror (13) and Newtons prism experiment (27). (Wurtemberg, Germany c1850)

Descartes explanation of vision, 1692. Light rays being passed through the eye, being focused by the lens (I) and forming images T, S, R on the retina

Descartes idea of vision, 1692
Descartes (1596-1650) idea of vision, [1692]. The passage of nervous impulses from the eye to the pineal gland and so to the muscles. From Rene Descartes Opera Philosophica (Tractatus de homine), 1692

Grey drone-fly, observation XXXIX from Hookes Micrographia, 1664. Artist: Robert Hooke
Grey drone-fly, observation XXXIX from Hookes Micrographia, 1664. Micrographica contains prints of some of the specimens Hooke viewed under the compound microscope that he designed

Reconstructed Skull of Cromagnon Man, c20th century. Cro-Magnon is a common name used to describe the first early modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens)

Mask from Java, Indonesia. Much of Indonesian history took place on Java. It was the center of powerful Hindu-Buddhist empires, the Islamic sultanates, and the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies

Skull of Australopithecus Africanus from Sterkfontein, South Africa, 3 to 2 million years BC. Australopithecus africanus is an extinct (fossil) species of the australopithecines

Wax portrait from Antinoe, 3rd century. Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits is the modern term given to a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to Egyptian mummies

Roman doctor inspecting eye of a woman, relief on gravestone, from house near Naix, France. Bas-relief, now in National Archaeological Museum, Rome, Italy

Stele with Ra as Hawk, Sun symbol and Eyes, on Stele of Lady Taperet, c850BC-690 BC. Painted wood, from Third Intermediate period, uncertain provenance, probably region of Thebes

Sea Perch, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Sea Perch, 20th century. Found in the Atantic and Mediterranean, Perch are carnivorous fish, who feed on smaller fish, shellfish, or insect larvae. They can be caught with nearly any bait

Reconstructed Neanderthal skull
The skull of a Neanderthal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints (reconstruction)

Reconstructed Neanderthal Mans skull, 49, 000 BC
The skull of a Neanderthal man, reconstructed, 49, 000 BC

Pagan stone head, from a Celtic shrine at Cinderford, now at Gloucester City Museum

Stone head from Bon Marche site in Gloucester, now at Gloucester City Museum

Skull of Homo Erectus

Fossil skull of a primitive horse
Fossil skull of Equus Plesippus Soshoneisis, a primitive horse

Odysseus and his companions put out the eye of Polyphemus, 7th century BC
Odysseus and his companions put out the eye of Polyphemus, from a Greek vase found in Argos, now at Argos Museum, 7th century BC

Skull of Australopithecus Africanus from Transvaal

Coconut-fibre mask from the Torres Straits islands
Coconut-fibre mask, with eyes of coiled wire. From the Torres Straits islands, from the British Museums collection

Model boat containing a chiefs skull from the Solomon Isles
Model boat containing a chiefs skull, found near a cairn in New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. From the British Museums collection

Roman bronze bust of a Roman man with inlaid eyes, 2nd century
Bronze bust of a Roman man with silver and garnet inlaid eyes. From the British Museums collection, 2nd century

Egyptian wax portrait of a young man, 2nd century
Roman period Egyptian wax portrait of a young man from a tomb, from the British Museums collection, 2nd century

Head of Haida Native American Ancestor-figure, from the pacific north-west coast of America, from the British Museums collection

Syrian Eye-goddess
Alabaster Syrian Eye-goddess from Tell Brak, from the British Museums collection

Mummified bull, from Thebes, Egypt, Roman Period, after 30 BC. Bulls were sacred to several gods through which they issued oracles. From the British Museums Collection

Egyptian faience statuette of Sobek
Bronze Ptolemaic figure of the egyptian crocodile-god Sobek, c600BC. He wears an atef crown. From the British Museums collection

Skull of Proconsulus Africanus, from Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya

Skull of Homo Sapiens, from Broken Hill in Zambia

Head of a Haniwa tomb figure, 6th century
Head of a Haniwa tomb-figure from Berlin Museums collection, 6th century

Mask representing a god, Aztec / Mixtec, Mexico, early 16th century
Aztec Turquoise Mosaic Mask.Mask representing a god, Aztec/Mixtec, Mexico, early 16th century. A turquoise and shell mask usually thought to represent the god Quetzalcoatl

Bronze Scythian pole-top in the early style with later developments
Bronze Scythian pole-top from the Kurgan near Ul (Kuban ). Continues the early period style, but has later developments, such as the bird head on an ibexs neck and an anthropomorphic eye

Relief showing the head of Akhenaten, 14th century BC
Relief showing the head of Akhenaten (ruled 1353-1336 BC)

Detail of an Egyptian papyrus showing the eye of Horus from the Ledien Rijksmuseum

Assyrian relief of a genie protector from the palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad. From the British Museums collection

Limestone bust of Hairan, son of Marion from Palmyra, Syria, c150-200
Limestone bust from a Palmyrene funerary relief, from Palmyra, Syria, c150-200. Bearded man wearing toga, holding a strip of writing material in his left hand

Gypsum statue of a woman, which originally had inlaid eyes

Head of a wooden figure from New Ireland, Melanesian. From the British Museums collection

Roman relief of an oculist at work: a doctor inspecting the eye of a woman. From a Roman home near Naux in France

Cro-magnon skull
A Cro-magnon skull from France

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