Part of Charles Byrne's skeleton is shown in the background of the portrait of John Hunter painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Sources
- Statement on the skeleton of Charles Byrne from the Board of Trustees of the Hunterian Collection (rcseng.ac.uk)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-a-london-museum-is-removing-the-skeleton-of-an-irish-giant-from-view-180981464/ (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://aeon.co/essays/do-the-dead-have-a-right-to-keep-their-bodies-out-of-museums (aeon.co)
- https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2023/01/hunterian-museum-defends-decision-to-retain-skeleton-of-irish-giant-charles-byrne/ (museumsassociation.org)
- https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw03322/John-Hunter (npg.org.uk)
- https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v20/n19/john-mullan/freak-anatomist (lrb.co.uk)
- https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/32063 (nationalgalleries.org)
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