Optometry & Eye Doctor Office Art — Vintage Eye Anatomy Prints
The plates an optometrist, ophthalmologist or optician hangs: the eye in horizontal section, the retina, the eyeball and its six muscles, the orbit, the eye in the orbit, the blood vessels of the eye and the eye with its lacrimal apparatus, all colour plates from Johannes Sobotta's atlas of 1920, with Bartolomeo Eustachi's engraving of the eye in twelve dissections from 1714. Composed as wall art for the consulting room and the dispensing floor.
7 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
For the consulting room and the shop floor
The eye in horizontal section is the plate every practice recognises, cornea to retina in one cut, and the one to hang at 24×36 behind the examination chair. The retina, a warm disc of vessels on a pale ground, reads as abstract art at a distance and suits the dispensing floor and the waiting room; the eyeball with its muscles and the orbit explain the things patients ask about. Eustachi's twelve dissections, the eye taken apart layer by layer in copper engraving in 1714, is the historical piece for the office.
The atlases behind them
The seven colour plates are chromolithographs from the third volume of Johannes Sobotta's Atlas der deskriptiven Anatomie des Menschen, published in 1920, one of the standard anatomical atlases of the twentieth century. Eustachi's eye comes from the Tabulae anatomicae, forty-seven copper plates engraved in Rome in the sixteenth century and published in 1714, each figure inside a numbered border so that nothing is labelled on the body itself. The specimen edition of every plate carries its atlas, plate and date typeset beneath the image.
Sizes, framing and sets
Sobotta plates print up to 24×36; the Eustachi engraving up to 16×24. Each is offered full-bleed or as a captioned specimen on a cream ground, on 250 gsm off-white archival paper, unframed or framed in black or dark wood with a plexiglass front and no mat; black sharpens the engraving, dark wood warms the colour plates. The section, the retina and the eyeball with its muscles at 16×24 make the standard consulting-room trio, and three or more prints take 10% off automatically. Standard shipping is free.