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An old woman with a flower; representing the sense of smell. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.

A gardener smelling a flower; representing the sense of smell. Etching by T. Kitchin after D. Teniers.

The five senses: sight, surrounded by vignettes showing the other senses. Coloured lithograph by Belin.

The sense of smell: a man lying in bed smells flowers as another lights some incense, above, a priest stands before a burning sacrifice of a lamb. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.

A man holding a tobacco pipe and blowing a smoke ring. Mezzotint by A. Blooteling (Bloteling) after P. Staverenus.

A woman with a flower; representing the sense of smell. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.

A dog looks on as a man and a woman smell a flower; representing the sense of smell. Engraving.

Four men watch, some holding their noses, as a man vomits; representing the sense of smell. Pen and ink drawing by P. Boone, 1651.

People smelling flowers on the steps of an ornamental garden; representing the sense of smell. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1638.

A peasant man sits on a tree stump vomiting and onlookers hold their noses, with an accompanying couplet. Etching, 17th century.

A woman with some flowers; representing the sense of smell. Engraving, 16--.

De odoribus / Theophrast ; Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar von Ulrich Eigler, Georg Wöhrle ; mit einem botanischen Anhang von Bernhard Herzhoff.

Smell detectives : an olfactory history of nineteenth-century urban America / Melanie A. Kiechle.

Osphrésiologie, ou, Traité des odeurs, du sens et des organes de l'olfaction : avec l'histoire détailée des maladies du nez et des fosses nasales, et des opérations qui leur conviennent / par Hippol. Cloquet.

Blink: a horizon guide to the senses.

The five senses of man / by Julius Bernstein.

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Smell

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De odoribus / Theophrast ; Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar von Ulrich Eigler, Georg Wöhrle ; mit einem botanischen Anhang von Bernhard Herzhoff.

Smell detectives : an olfactory history of nineteenth-century urban America / Melanie A. Kiechle.

Osphrésiologie, ou, Traité des odeurs, du sens et des organes de l'olfaction : avec l'histoire détailée des maladies du nez et des fosses nasales, et des opérations qui leur conviennent / par Hippol. Cloquet.

Blink: a horizon guide to the senses.

The five senses of man / by Julius Bernstein.

Smell

Images from the collections

Images referencing Smell

Works from the collections

De odoribus / Theophrast ; Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar von Ulrich Eigler, Georg Wöhrle ; mit einem botanischen Anhang von Bernhard Herzhoff.

Smell detectives : an olfactory history of nineteenth-century urban America / Melanie A. Kiechle.

Osphrésiologie, ou, Traité des odeurs, du sens et des organes de l'olfaction : avec l'histoire détailée des maladies du nez et des fosses nasales, et des opérations qui leur conviennent / par Hippol. Cloquet.

Blink: a horizon guide to the senses.

The five senses of man / by Julius Bernstein.

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