William Hunter's anatomical figure
Michael Henry Spang
- Art Funded
- 2006
- Dimensions
- Height: 25 cm
- Vendor
- Daniel Katz Ltd
This work is a small-scale replica of a plaster cast of a flayed criminal which Dr.
William Hunter made in the 1750s to aid his lectures to the Incorporated Society of Painters, and subsequently the Royal Academy. This statuette was made from a figure in wax which Hunter had previously acquired.
Provenance
Unrecorded before Daniel Katz.