RefNo | PT/73/10/25 |
Level | Item |
Title | Painting, the human eye by Charles Bell |
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. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Watercolour |
PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on artists' board |
Dimensions | 232x161mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0210 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1823.0017 |
RelatedRecord | PT/16/17 |
URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-9909 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA3507 | Bell; Sir; Charles (1774 - 1842) | 1774 - 1842 |
NA3167 | Combe; Taylor (1774 - 1826) | 1774 - 1826 |