The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

Category

Library Item

Item no

18722

Title

The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

Description

The Hunterian Museum has a grand entrance with steps leading up to a portico with pillars and pedimented facade. There is a large dome on its roof. A number of people are gathered around the museum including children, men and women.

Artist / maker

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer

Engraver

Fox, A

Date

1829

Size

9.6 x 15.6 cm

Type

Engraving

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This image comes from 'Modern Athens', a book of engravings based on drawings by Thomas Shepherd published in 1829. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Edinburgh was growing rapidly. The popular neoclassical architectural style of the time was inspired by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and Edinburgh was nicknamed 'Athens of the North'. Shepherd's engravings celebrate the beauty of Edinburgh and show many notable buildings and streets both within the city, and further afield.

The Hunterian Museum is the oldest public museum in Scotland. It was built to house a bequest given by anatomist and archaeological collector, William Hunter (1718-1783) to the University of Glasgow. The building pictured here was demolished in 1870.

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