A three-quarter-length portrait of John Hunter (1728–93) seated at a desk, holding a quill in his right hand and resting his chin on his left hand. He has paper and an inkwell on the table in front of him, together with an anatomy book open at diagrams of the human skull, two more closed books and a bell jar. In a niche above the edsk are another jar and the legs of a human skeleton. Lettered beneath the image with the title, ‘John Hunter’, and the publication details: ‘Sir Joshua Reynolds pinxt. / Willm. Sharp sculpt. / London. Published Jany. 1. 1788, by W. Sharp, Charles Street Middx. Hospital B.B. Evans corner of the Old Jewry Cheapside & W. Skelton No 23 Hay Market.’ This portrait was engraved by William Sharp after an original painting by Joshua Reynolds. The print was published on 1 January 1788 by Sharp, Benjamin Beale Evans and William Skelton. Reynolds’s painting was produced in 1786 and is now in the collection of the Royal College of Surgeons. John Hunter was an eminent physiologist and surgeon. In his early career, he assisted his brother William Hunter in the latter’s anatomical demonstrations, before training as a surgeon and serving with the army in Portugal in 1762. Returning to London in 1763, he continued his surgical career. Over the next thirty years he occupied a number of important offices, including those of surgeon-extraordinary to the king and surgeon-general of the army. The image and title of this impression have been cut out and pasted onto another sheet. (Updated May 2019.)