Photograph by David Spero

Photograph by David Spero

The Society met here in 1755

This photograph was taken after the plaques above the right and left hand windows are casts of the English Bas relief depicting Priam's Appeal to Achilles for the Body of Hector (currently situated in the reception area). They were affixed in 1979-80 in partial fulfilment of Robert Adam's proposed decorative scheme.

Ceiling detail from Adam's own house in the Royal Terrace, which he lived in from 1772 to 1786, although it was demolished with the rest of the Adelphi scheme in 1936, the inset paintings were saved

Accompanied by letter to Sir Henry Trueman Wood, Secretary from person who commissioned the photograph