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Concept

Hearing

Images

  • The bones of the ear and of hearing. Etching, 1743.
  • Acoustics: a telephonic demonstration at an exhibition (in Paris?). Wood engraving, ca.1889.
  • The five senses: sight, surrounded by vignettes showing the other senses. Coloured lithograph by Belin.
  • A woman plays music to a stag; God condemns Adam and Eve to exile; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • Music being played to a lady, while above an angel blows a trumpet into Jerome's ear; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    A doctor tests a patient's hearing with a pistol. Colour process print after H. Nymark, 1977.

    Nymark, Harald, 1925- | Date: c. 1980 | Reference: 18194i
    • Books

    Rompa : Spring/Summer 2014 : the complete sensory resource for all generations / Rompa Ltd.

    Rompa Ltd. | Date: 2014
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    A woman playing the barrel-organ; representing the sense of hearing. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.

    Wille, Pierre Alexandre, 1748-1821. | Reference: 27104i
    • Books

    Hearing and the hospital : sound, listening, knowledge and experience / Tom Rice.

    Rice, Tom (Lecturer in anthropology) | Date: 2013
    • Pictures

    Freemasons' symbols, from architectural instruments to cosmic symbols, with an eye looking downward. Etching, 1788.

    | Date: 1788 | Reference: 27184i
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