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William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum accompanies a
groundbreaking exhibition organized by the Hunterian at the
University of Glasgow, in collaboration with the Yale Center for
British Art, to celebrate the 2018 tercentenary of The Hunterian's
founder, Dr. William Hunter (1718-1783). This publication is the
first in 150 years to assess the contribution made by Hunter, the
Scottish-born obstetrician, anatomist, and collector, to the
development of the modern museum as a public institution. Essays
examine how Hunter gathered his collection to be used as a source
of knowledge and instruction, encompassing outstanding paintings
and works on paper, coins and medals, and anatomical and zoological
specimens. Hunter also possessed ethnographic artifacts from Spain,
the Middle East, China, and the South Pacific, and was an avid
collector of medieval manuscripts and incunabula; these were all
located within one of the most important "working" libraries of
eighteenth-century London. Published by the Yale Center for British
Art in association with The Hunterian Exhibition Schedule: The
Hunterian, Glasgow (09/28/18-01/06/19) Yale Center for British Art
(02/14/19-05/20/19)
William Hunter (1718-83) was an outstanding figure of his time, not
only as a surgeon and doctor who successfully delivered six royal
children to George III and Queen Charlotte, but also as Professor
of Anatomy at the Royal Academy of Arts. His involvement in the
arts, as a result of which he became intimate with Hogarth, Ramsay,
Stubbs and Reynolds, stemmed from his pursuit of medical
illustrations. He founded the first public museum in Scotland, the
present Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, and bequeathed to it his
remarkable collection of paintings, prints, drawings, coins,
classical vases, medals, books and curiosities. Celebrating the
250th anniversary of the opening of the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow
in 2007, this book provides a full study both of this many-faceted
surgeon/connoisseur and of his collection of art, which not only
contains a number of outstanding masterpieces, such as a Rembrandt,
but also provides a revealing snapshot of the taste of the period.
While illuminating this crucial transitional period in British art,
the book is at the same time a catalogue of the Hunterian
collection. Contributors: Peter Black, curator at the Hunterian
Museum, Glasgow; Mungo Campbell, Deputy Director; Anne Dulau,
curator; Helen McCormack, has a Paul Mellon grant to research
William Hunter. Published to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the
opening of the Huntarian Museum.
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