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Floor-to-ceiling museum case. The back panel is a scaled up oil painting of an English rural scene. Just off centre is an oil painting of a seated man (John Hunter) with a dog. To the paintings left there is the articulated skeleton of the head and neck of a camel. To the right and below is a display of specimens in glass jars, labels, images and a large woven bee skep.
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John Hunter – Earl’s Court

By 1765, John Hunter was earning enough to buy a small country estate at Earl’s Court, a village west of London. This room looks at some of the work he carried out there - observing nature, setting up experiments, dissecting animals and preparing specimens.
Glass specimen pot, labelled 2874, containing a plant seed pod suspended in fluid

Love-in-a-mist (Nigella) seed pod, prepared by John Hunter, 1760-1793