Smugglerius
Smugglerius
Smugglerius
Smugglerius
Smugglerius
Smugglerius
Smugglerius
Smugglerius

Image credit: Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh)

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The work is part of the Edinburgh College of Art cast collection. It was cast after a now lost bronze cast from 1776 made by the sculptor Agostino Carlini for William Hunter, professor of anatomy at the Royal Academy Schools, from the body of a criminal, flayed after he was hanged at Tyburn and posed like the famous antique sculpture The Dying Gaul. The criminal was thought to be a smuggler, so the cast of his body was given the pseudo-Latin name 'Smugglerius'.

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Title

Smugglerius

Date

1854

Medium

plaster

Accession number

EU1473

Work type

Statue

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