The Print Room

In the Print Room you will find images to delight the eye. Many of them are about the eye. All have some optical relevance. So do some of the print frames! You'll also discover that the method of hanging an historic print room could provide a visual feast in itself.

  1. Antique prints and print rooms

    Antique prints and print rooms

    Print Rooms flourished in the second half of the 18th century

  2. The College Print Room

    The College Print Room

    Our amazing display wall of prints

  3. Drawn from nature and as large as life

    Drawn from nature and as large as life

    The lifesize print portraits of Thomas Frye

  4. The scholars on their travels

    The scholars on their travels

    Optical devices in use in the Tropics

  5. Eye Spy

    Eye Spy

    Vanity Fair cartoons of eminent Victorians

  6. A spectacle of spectacles

    A spectacle of spectacles

    Boilly's print 'Les Lunettes' shows multiple vision aids in use

 

 An Estate Agent Wearing Spectacles 1797