Mungo Campbell
Mungo Campbell is Deputy Director of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. He was previously Assistant Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Scotland.
Campbell, Mungo
Campbell, Mungo
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Description: William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
From the preparations and casts produced by William Hunter in his investigation of the anatomy of the human gravid uterus, through the determined amassing of one of the eighteenth century’s greatest collections of numismatics, to his library, in which could be found printed books and manuscripts produced in every corner of...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.336-353
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00250.018
Description: William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
William Hunter enjoyed an international reputation as a teacher. By the late 1760s, his pedagogic practice extended from practical instruction in dissection for students of medicine—conducted by this time in the purpose-built premises at Great Windmill Street designed for him by Robert Mylne (see cat. 10)—to the elucidation of human anatomy and its...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.196-209
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00250.011
Description: William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
Occasional clues to the character and personality of William Hunter may be extracted from the objects in his collections, when they are interrogated with their owner in mind: the networks through which a given item was acquired may reveal Hunter’s patterns of professional or business relationships. The nature of a particular area of the collection, or the decision to concentrate on one...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.178-195
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00250.010
Description: William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
The Hunterian Museum opened its doors to the visiting public at the University of Glasgow in 1807, presenting its treasures in a purpose-built Neoclassical temple designed by the Scottish architect William Stark (1770–1813) (fig. 1). It was the first institution of its kind in Scotland and had been founded, and its construction funded, through the bequest of an...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.25-47
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00250.002
Description: William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00250
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.

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Print publication date November 2018 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300236651
EISBN 9780300260762
Illustrations 389
Print Status in print