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   Towne
   Joseph
   J. T. ;
   wife *(+1881)
   several
   1808 in Royston, Hertfordshire
   1879
   West Norwood
   dissenting minister
   
   
   United Kingdom
   surgeon Astley Cooper, anat. John Hilton, Thomas Addison, Thomas Hodgkin
   modeller of Museum at Guy's Hospital Medical School;
   Francesco (Francis), artists: Tupper, William Hurst, C.J. Canton
   medical & dermatological moulages; 3D wax model casting, sculpting, stereoscopy
   www.pinterest.com/pin/205899014187899532/ ; http://www.kcl.ac.uk/gordon/collection/models.aspx
   Gordon-Museum (w. 750 wax models & moulages); King's College, London: https://19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/10.16995/ntn.787/
   J.Towne: Remarks on stereoscopic theory of vision; Samuel Wilks & G.T. Bettany. Biogr. History of Guy's Hospital 1892, 188, 409ff.; Thomas Schnalke: Moulagen in der Dermatologie, 1986: 60ff.; D.J. Atherton: J.T. - wax modeller extraordinary. J Am Acad Dermatol. 3 (1980):311–6; T. Bryant: J.T., modeller to Guy’s Hospital for 53 years. Guys Hosp Rep. 26 (1883):1–12; Kristin D. Hussey: Seen and Unseen. The Representation of Visible and Hidden Disease in the Waxworks of J.T. at the Gordon Museum, in: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 24 (2017), online available at https://19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/10.16995/ntn.787/ w. many photogr. of J.T.'s wax models
   J.T. was active in London as anatomical & dermatological moulageur. He won the silver & gold medal of the Society of Arts in 1826; prize 1st Int. Exhibition London 1851; selfportrait : http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/murderer-james-leggs-story-resurrected-at-body-snatchers-exhibition-8215156.html?action=gallery&ino=26
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