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Architectural drawing for 16 Great Windmill Street, London

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Description: Architectural drawing for 16 Great Windmill Street, London
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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
This essay explores the nature of William Hunter’s museum and seeks to identify the underlying concepts that connect together the diverse elements of his extensive collections. Recovering these is no easy task, since the museum encompasses academic disciplines that are now considered separate, as well as a multiplicity of artefacts and objects with distinct histories. Despite this apparent...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.159-175
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00250.009

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