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Concept

Taste

Images

  • The five senses: sight, surrounded by vignettes showing the other senses. Coloured lithograph by Belin.
  • A tentative patient asks whether he will be able to taste his medicine. Coloured lithograph by A.L. Noël.
  • A man grimacing at some unpleasant tasting medicine he has been prescribed to take. Coloured aquatint.
  • A drunkard with an empty glass; representing the sense of taste. Engraving, 16--.
  • An old woman with a plate of vegetables; representing the sense of taste. Mezzotint by A.H.J. Degmair after P.A. Wille.
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Catalogue

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    • Online

    A female figure with bowls of fruit and a monkey; Eve picks the apple from the tree of knowledge; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.

    Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603. | Reference: 26958i
    Part of: The five senses (Martin de Vos)
    • Books

    Fatboy zine : the Philippines 2000-2002.

    O'Leary, Chris | Date: [2019]
    • Books
    • Online

    Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine : présentée et soutenue le 22 décembre 1841, / par Léon-Jean de Jonchère-Finot, né à Paris. I. Des complications de la gangrène. ... [etc].

    Jonchère-Finot, Léon-Jean de. | Date: 1841
    • Books

    Flavor : the science of our most neglected sense / Bob Holmes.

    Holmes, Bob (Evolutionary biologist) | Date: [2017]
    • Videos

    Blink: a horizon guide to the senses.

    | Date: 2012
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