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Explore the many ways in which science is visual, and visual culture shapes how we think about science. Our collections range across painting, drawing, print, sculpture and digital from the 1500s to today.

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Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

Alan Measles - God in the time of Covid-19 by Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry

2020

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Poster of Valentina Tereshkova, First woman cosmonaut

Art

1963

'Bloom' kinetic sculpture by Studio Roso

Studio Roso

2019

'Self-Conscious Gene' sculpture by Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn

2019

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Iron Baby

Antony Gormley

1999

Waterloo Station

Terence Tenison Cuneo

1967

'Investment; Tabitha’s Gown'

Art

2014

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

William Combe

1820

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

George Cruikshank

1832

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Alfred Edward Chalon

1840

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

'Santa Medicina' sculpture by Eleanor Crook

Eleanor Crook

2019

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

.Unattributed

1744-1774

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

1785-1790

Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784

Paul Sandby

1784

Do Not Touch

Christian Moeller

2004

Bust of Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Jacob Epstein

1933

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Thomas Talbot Bury

1831

Richard Arkwright

Joseph Wright of

1790

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

Art

1785

'For Science' [2] by Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer

2020

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

Hans Hysing

1725

Dudley Adams

.Unattributed

1796-1826

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

William Ellis

1792

CAROLVS II.

Wenceslaus Hollar

1667

Chemical Lectures

Thomas Rowlandson

c.1810

Plato

James Hall Nasmyth

1844

'For Science' [1] by Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer

2020

Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778

James Bretherton

1778

Etching of an electrically powered garden

Art

1755

Poster for Magni & C. Vicenza, printed by G Ricordi & C Milano c1900

Art

c. 1900

Chromolithograph: Amalgamated Society of Engineers Machinist

Art

1904

Operative Society of Bricklayers

Art

1866-1870

Stone sculpture of R J Mitchell

Stephen Kettle

2005

Cesare Urtis & Co - Forniture Electriche

Art

1900

Portrait oil painting of John Arnold and family 1783-1787

Robert Davy

1783-1787

Distinguished Men of Science

William Walker

1862