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Pursuing portraiture

history of science
Ellen Embleton
26 September 2022
5 mins

Ellen Embleton discovers how the Royal Society Library acquired its collection of engravings, including more than 900 portraits amassed by the scientific writer John Peter Gassiot FRS.

Perfect copy

history of science
Ellen Embleton
02 March 2021
4 mins

Ellen Embleton admires the watercolours of Royal Society portraits created by copyist George Perfect Harding, and now housed in the Library's Newtoniana volumes.