Duke of Híjar [first name unknown] [last name unknown]
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Related toLise C. Ruud, 'Six Monstrous Pigs: Animal Monsters and Museum Practices in the Eighteenth-Century El Real Gabinete de Historia Natural', in Liv Emma Thorsen, et. al. (eds), Animals on Display. 2013. pp. 15-36.
Description:Ruud notes that 'Híjar... moved in multiple spheres of authority and power: he was duke and the director of a hospital in Madrid... the Duke of Híjar can be associated with the institutionalized sphere of science and reform in contemporary Madrid.' (20)
