Welcome to the Royal Society Picture Library

Explore over 10,000 high resolution images of paintings, drawings and prints, hand-picked from our historic picture collections.

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Anna Atkins (1799-1871)

Anne-Katrin Purkiss collection

De Historia Piscium (1686)

William Hamilton (1730-1803) FRS

Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) FRS

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) FRS

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

Godfrey Argent Studio

Oil on canvas portraits

Sculpture bust portraits

Martin Frobene Ledermuller (1719-1769)

Collectanea Newtoniana

Admission Day portraits

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