The Slinger

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Laurance MacDonald (1799-1878) was born in Perthshire, moving to Rome in the 1820s to become a sculptor of portrait busts. He was a founding member of the British Academy of Arts in Rome (1822-23). In 1827 MacDonald succeeded Samuel Joseph as the most influential sculptor involved in the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, the collection with is now in the care of The Anatomical Museum. The sculpture is a rendition of the famous 'David' (the most popular depiction was by Michelangelo, also on Scan the World), where a very youthful hero is depicted in the action of tossing his sling to kill The Goliath.

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The collection consists of 12,000 objects and specimens that tell the story of 300 years of anatomical teaching at the University of Edinburgh. About one third of the museum’s collection is related to pathology, anatomy and zoology. This includes models, skeletal remains, dried and fluid preserved specimens. The rest of the collections include phrenology, pharmacology, ethnography, forensics and anatomical and other artworks. The museum displays a number of unique objects including the skull of George Buchanan (tutor to James VI), a dissected body with the lymphatic system injected with mercury (1788) and the skeleton of notorious murderer William Burke (1829). In 2016 the Anatomical Museum was awarded ‘Accredited’ status by Museums Galleries Scotland.

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