| Description | Interior scene, showing the meeting room of the Royal Society at Somerset House, with balloting in progress. The President and Vice-Presidents in their chairs, before the mace, with Fellows of the Royal Society seated below them.
From The Illustrated Times, 23 December 1843, p.412. Captioned below: ‘MEETING OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, AT SOMERSET HOUSE.’
The accompanying article contains a description of the print: ‘Our engraving shows the Society’s meeting-room, a spacious apartment upon the second floor, looking into the great quadrangle of Somerset House; the entrance to the same being in the eastern part of the Strand front. The room has one of Chambers’s enriched ceilings and the floor is carpeted, and covered with backed seats; but the eye soon rests upon the busts and paintings of the presidents and most distinguished Fellows of the Society’.
Frederick William Fairholt (1814-1866) British illustrator. |