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An etching is produced by biting lines in a metal plate with acid to hold ink which is then printed onto paper. This is a page from a set of five prints representing the Five Senses - Smell, Taste, Hearing, Touch and Sight. As here, the Five Senses are generally represented as female figures engaged in some activity relating to the sense they portray. They are accompanied by an appropriate animal and by cherubs playing with objects associated with the senses.<br><br>This print shows 'Tactus' (Touch). In this example the female figure has a bird perched on her hand pecking her finger and a tortoise under her right foot. The niche in which she sits is surrounded by thorns on which one of the cherubs has pricked his hand. Another cherub is rubbing a painful foot whilst a third feeds a snail. Two monkeys or apes, often used to portray touch in depictions of the Five Senses, are shown grooming themselves.<br><br><b>People</b><br>Francis Cleyn, who etched these prints, worked mainly for the Mortlake Tapestry Factory, where he was appointed chief designer in 1626. He probably later reused the central female figures in a set of tapestries at Haddon Hall in Derbyshire.<br><br><b>Ownership & Use</b><br>These prints served a dual function. Collectors bought them as prints to be collected in their own right, while craftsmen bought them as sources for the decoration of objects they were making.","physicalDescription":"1 of six etchings showing the five senses (and a frontispiece)","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Clein, Francis","id":"A1338"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"AAT25190"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Clein, Francis","id":"A1338"},"association":{"text":"etcher","id":"AAT25174"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Rowlett, Thomas","id":"A8808"},"association":{"text":"publisher","id":"x32600"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"}],"techniques":[{"text":"etching","id":"AAT53241"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Etching, ink on paper","categories":[{"text":"Allegory","id":"THES250534"},{"text":"Ornament prints","id":"THES49038"},{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AN2368"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"56D","id":"THES49242"},"free":"","case":"CA17","shelf":"","box":"14"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"published","id":"x30682"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1646","earliest":"1646-01-01","latest":"1646-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"8.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"print","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"19.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"print","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Measured; 07/01/1999 by sp/nh\n\nCurrently mounted with five others (E.708 to 711-1927 and E.713-1927) on board 54 x 37.5cm","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Lettered 'Tactus'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":"A8877"},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Designed and etched by Francis Cleyn (born in Rostock, Germany, 1582, died in London, 1658); published in London by Thomas Rowlett (active 1645-1649)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Tactus' (Touch) from 'Quinque Sensum Descriptio","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1927</u>, London: Board of Education, 1928."}],"production":"Signed and dated 1646","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nTHE FIVE SENSES<br>\nThe Five Senses of Hearing, Sight, Touch, Taste and Smell were popular subjects throughout the 17th century. They are found on a wide variety of objects of varying quality. Artists and makers usually depicted them as people involved in appropriate activities. On the ceramic dish is Hearing, the embroidered panel for a casket portrays Taste and all Five Senses are shown on the lining paper for a trunk.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["E.712-1927"],"accessionNumberNum":"712","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1927,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP8907","2019LP4403","2019LU5294"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-06-25","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}