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Concept

Smell

Images

  • 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.
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Catalogue

    • Books

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

    Theophrastus. | Date: 1993
    • Books

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

    Kiechle, Melanie A. | Date: [2017]
    • Books
    • Online

    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.

    Cloquet, H. (Hippolyte), 1787-1840. | Date: 1821
    • Videos

    Blink: a horizon guide to the senses.

    | Date: 2012
    • Books

    The five senses of man / by Julius Bernstein.

    Bernstein, Julius, 1839-1917. | Date: 1891
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