Hunterian Museum interior, 19th-century artwork. Located at the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, this museum opened in 1813. It is based on the collection of Scottish surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793). In the early 1840s, curated by Richard Owen (robed, 1804-1892) it included a giant ground sloth (Mylodon robustus, left), a giant armadillo relative (Glyptodon clavipes, left), and the 2.31-metre-tall skeleton of the Irish Giant (Charles Byrne, 1761-1783, centre right). Artwork by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (17921864), engraved by Edward Radclyffe (1810-1863).