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Tuesday to Saturday: 10am – 5pm

Illustration of the cross-section of a building

English Literature

Colour drawing of two grave robbers stealing the corpse of a woman, with Death (in the form of a skeleton) watching over and holding their lantern. Beside them is an open red coffin.

The Resurrectionists by Thomas Rowlandson, c.1775

Detail of a cross section of a house

Hunter's house in Leicester square

Explore John Hunter's Leicester square house source of inspiration for the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter was both widely acclaimed and greatly feared.