num_pages: 440
description: 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 Hunterians 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.
language: English
title: William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
publisher: YC British Art