Group portrait of Fellows of the Royal Society Size:XL: 100 x 70cm View of the British Department

View of the British Department of the exhibition

His successor is the Hon Mr Henry Brand

Dressed in a purple coat with blue trim

'Margaret of Anjou taken prisoner after the Battle of Tewkesbury'

Group portrait of Fellows of the Royal Society Size:XL: 100 x 70cm View of the British DepartmentA series of sketches and caricatures, interspersed with doodles, on a blotter used at a Transit of Venus Committee meeting at the Royal Society, 1882. Originally misidentified by a contemporary as an 1870 meeting of Council and pasted into a volume of press cuttings for that year. Individuals identified include (left to right): Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, third Marquess of Salisbury (1830 1903), prime minister; George Carey Foster (1835 1919)