Smugglerius

The original bronze cast was made in 1776 by Agostino Carlini for William Hunter, first Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy Schools, from the body of a muscular criminal, flayed after he was hanged at Tyburn.

The criminal was thought to be a smuggler, and so the cast of his body was given the mocking cod Latin name "Smugglerius".

It is the best (and the best preserved) of the anatomical casts held by the Royal Academy, and has been sketched by many art students.

A particularly famous drawing was made by William Linnell in 1840, and now held by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

However, Langar was not sentenced to be dissected and anatomized (unlike, for example, Thomas Henman and Benjamin Harley, smugglers convicted of murdering a customs officer on 22 May 1776 and executed 5 days later).