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Johannes Hevelius' 150 foot refracting telescope

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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Robert Hooke FRS
Copperplate engravings from our recently conserved first edition of Hooke's Micrographia
Fellows of the Royal Society
A selection of photographs from the Anne-Katrin Purkiss collection
John Smeaton FRS
Working drawings of civil engineer John Smeaton
William Hamilton FRS
Engravings documenting William Hamilton's travels around the Campi Phlegraei region of Naples
Phillip Henry Gosse FRS
Chromolithographs from the book The aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea, 1854
Elizabeth Blackwell
Botanical specimens from Scottish illustrator and engraver Elizabeth Blackwell
     
Supported by the De Laszlo Foundation
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