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Description: | "Drawn, Engraved & Published with Permission by T. Devey, Walworth, August 25 1813" CRE DEVEY, T; (English; fl. 1813) NFA assisted purchase, acquired for an exhibition about William Hunter's art collection in 2007. Martin Van Butchell (1735-1812) was a quack dentist, who advertised 'Real or Artificial Teeth, from one to an Entire Set, with superlative Gold Pivots or Springs, also Gums, Sockets, and Palates fitted, furnished and fixed without drawing stumps or causing pain.' He also described himself as 'Dr Hunter's pupil'. The present print shows him in old age, and was published as memorial to one of London's most extraordinary characters.
It was principally Hunter's interest in embalming that brought him together with van Butchell, though Hunter's bank account shows unexplained payments to the Fistula curer in 1772 (£42), and 1776 (£31.10.0). As owner of an Egyptian mummy, Hunter was a specialist in embalming, a subject that was included in his lectures. In 1775 van Butchell asked Hunter to embalm his wife Maria, and make a windowed coffin in which to preserve her in his parlour. An account of the embalming is given in T. Pettigrew's A History of Egyptian Mummies (1834). Pettigrew quotes Vanbutchell's notes which reveal that Hunter brought a number of visitors to see his handiwork including, on 7 February, more than a dozen fellows of the Royal Society, and on 11 Feburary, Drs Solander and Banks. | 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: | QUACK DENTIST : POPULAR PRINT : EMBALMING : LONDON CHARACTER : 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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