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Painting, the human eye by Charles Bell

Reference number: PT/73/10/25

Date: 1823

Description

Plate 21, figure 2 showing a view of the eyeball and its muscles seen in profile, the eye 'looking' to the right. Inscribed with publication and plate details and with instructions to the printer in pencil, below, 'Both figures to be on the same Plate. T.C.' [Taylor Combe, Royal Society Secretary]. Signed in ink lower right 'Charles Bell'. Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the motions of the eye, in illustration of the uses of the muscles and nerves of the orbit' by Charles Bell.

Read to the Royal Society on 20 March 1823.

Reference number
PT/73/10/25
Earliest possible date
1823
Physical description
Watercolour on artists' board
Page extent
1 page
Format
Watercolour
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Charles Bell

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Charles Bell, Painting, the human eye by Charles Bell, 1823, PT/73/10/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_10_25/painting-the-human-eye-by-charles-bell, accessed on 15 October 2024

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