Travellers' Tales

Travellers' Tails is a collaboration between Royal Museums Greenwich, The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, The Horniman, The Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL and the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby. The project will investigate themes of exploration, art and science inspired by the National Maritime Museum's recent acquisition of the 'Kangaroo' and 'Dingo' by the English painter George Stubbs. The Hunterian will create a special exhibition, with the Kangaroo as its centrepiece. The painting will be on loan to The Hunterian between 1 October 2015 and 21 February 2016. The Kangaroo was commissioned from Stubbs by the naturalist Sir Joseph Banks, immediately following his part in Captain James Cook’s 'first voyage of discovery' to the Pacific and first landing in Australia (1768–71). The Hunterian will position the Kangaroo in relation to its own famous paintings of New World animals by George Stubbs that were commissioned by the Hunterian’s founder Dr William Hunter together with related natural history specimens, artefacts and prints that commemorate the European discovery of Australia. The exhibition will explore key themes such as the representation of nature and early theories of extinction against the backdrop of the scientific and artistic dialogues between the painter George Stubbs and the scientists William Hunter and Joseph Banks. The presentation of the Kangaroo will be linked to objects and specimens in the Museum’s permanent displays through a digital trail.

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www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/focus/travellerstails/#d.en.400898

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/sc000244?id=EVENT526380