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Description: | RH CRE JUNE, J; (English; active 1740-1770) PUB Sayer, Robert and Smith, John NFA assisted purchase. In 1767 Dr William Hunter led an attempt to get the Royal College of Physicians to abandon its closed shop policy on fellowships - only graduates of Oxford and Cambridge could obtain them. Hunter, shown on horseback, with Sir William Duncan, led a group of disaffected licentiates to the College's Warwick Lane premises in protest. The Cutlerian Theatre of the Royal College is visible at the left-hand edge of the image, topped by a gold ball, from which its nickname the 'pillbox' was derived. The flags carried by the protesters have slogans in Latin meaning: "Destroy Oxford, Destroy [Cambridge]" and "For the Colleges of Scotland". The figure kneeling humbly in the foreground is one of the blacksmiths who accompanied Hunter and the other Licentiates of the College to help them break in to the College. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | MEDICAL CARICATURE : HUNTER : LONDON : SATIRE : MEDICINE : WARWICK LANE : CLOSED SHOP : ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS : CUTLERIAN THEATRE : HUNTER 2007 : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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