Record

RefNoPT/17/3/7
LevelItem
TitlePlate, man's eyes with nose pointing left and right by Sir Thomas Lawrence and Mr Perkins
Date[1824]
DescriptionTwo ink drawings of a man's eyes and the bridge of his nose. The first shows the man's nose pointing left and the second shows the man's nose pointing right, illustrating that the eyes appear the same regardless of the direction the man is facing. This illustration formed part of Plate X in the published paper. The eyes were drawn by Sir Thomas Lawrence, with the other facial features added by Mr Perkins.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the apparent direction of eyes in a portrait'.

Read 27 May 1824.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionInk drawing on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0236
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1824.0016
RelatedRecordPT/17/3
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8298Wollaston; William Hyde (1766 - 1828); chemist, physicist and physiologist1766 - 1828
NA5467Lawrence; Sir; Thomas (1769 - 1830)1769 - 1830
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