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100 1 $aMcCormack, Helen,$d1962-$eauthor.
245 10 $aWilliam Hunter and his eighteenth-century cultural worlds :$bthe anatomist and the fine arts /$cHelen McCormack.
246 3 $aWilliam Hunter and his 18th-century cultural worlds
264 1 $aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, NY :$bRoutledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,$c2018.
300 $axi, 199 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c26 cm.
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490 1 $aRoutledge research in art history
520 8 $a"The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant contribution to the history of collecting and the promotion of the fine arts in Britain in the eighteenth century. Born at the family home in East Calderwood, he matriculated at the University of Glasgow in 1731 and was greatly influenced by some of the most important philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746). He quickly abandoned his studies in theology for Medicine and in 1740 left Scotland for London where he steadily acquired a reputation as an energetic and astute practitioner; he combined his working life as an anatomist successfully with a wide range of interests in natural history, including mineralogy, conchology, botany and ornithology; and in antiquities, books, medals and artefacts; in the fine arts, he worked with artists and dealers and came to own a number of beautiful oil paintings and volumes of extremely fine prints. He built an impressive school of anatomy and a museum which housed these substantial and important collections.0William Hunter's life and work is the subject of this book, a cultural-anthropological account of his influence and legacy as an anatomist, physician, collector, teacher and demonstrator. Combining Hunter's lectures to students of anatomy with his teaching at the St Martin's Lane Academy, his patronage of artists, such as Robert Edge Pine, George Stubbs and Johan Zoffany, and his associations with artists at the Royal Academy of Arts, the book positions Hunter at the very centre of artistic, scientific and cultural life in London during the period, presenting a sustained and critical account of the relationship between anatomy and artists over the course of the long eighteenth century."--Back cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 182-194) and index.
600 10 $aHunter, William,$d1718-1783.
650 0 $aCollectors and collecting$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
830 0 $aRoutledge research in art history.
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