From an engraving presented to the Society by a fellow
Drawn by Cornelius Varley
Displayed at the Society's Library Exhibition 1949
Colour photocopy
From an engraving in Charles Knight's London, Vol. 5, 1843, p.357\nThe Library was originally planned by the Adams brothers as the Society's 'Repository' or 'Model Room' where mechanical inventions and agricultural machinery for which prizes had been awarded by the Society were permanently displayed in the 18th century. Now the Benjamin Franklin Room
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Ceiling had been decorated by D R Hay with a Gothic mosaic and the walls around the pictures with purple cloth, a central gas light had been added. From a view of the Society's Photographic Exhibition, London Illustrated News, 1/1/1853