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The Thames as a gateway to foreign trade routes. Etching by J. Barry, 1791.

A history of the Royal Society of Arts / by Sir Henry Trueman Wood ... with a preface by Lord Sanderson.

A Roman soldier and an old man walking among colossal Greek and Roman inscriptions and reliefs; a Greek fragment representing horses and a man's head in the foreground. Etching by A. Cardon after G. Bracci, ca. 1766.

Royal Society of Arts, London: Sir Henry Trueman Wood lecturing on photography. Halftone print after P.B. Hickling.

"The Virtuoso tribe of arts and sciences" : Studies in 18th-century work and membership of the London Society of Arts / Edited by D.G.C. Allan and John L. Abbott.

The Royal Society of Arts, 1754-1954 / by Derek Hudson and Kenneth W. Luckhurst ; with a foreword by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh and an introduction by the Earl of Radnor.

A concise account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce : instituted at London, anno MDCCLIV / Compiled from the original papers of the first promoters of the plan; and from other authentic records. By Mr. Mortimer.

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce : founded in 1754 ... John Adam Street, Adelphi, London, W.C.2.

Premiums by the Society, established at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

Report of the committee on leather for bookbinding / edited for The Society of Arts and the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Cobham and Sir Henry Trueman Wood.

A handy book of sanitary law / by Martin Ware.

A list of the Society ... March the 21st 1759.

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Premiums by the Society, established at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

Premiums by the Society, established at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

Report of the committee on leather for bookbinding / edited for The Society of Arts and the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Cobham and Sir Henry Trueman Wood.

A handy book of sanitary law / by Martin Ware.

A list of the Society ... March the 21st 1759.

Royal Society of Arts

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Images produced by Royal Society of Arts

Images referencing Royal Society of Arts

Works from the collections

Premiums by the Society, established at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

Premiums by the Society, established at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

Report of the committee on leather for bookbinding / edited for The Society of Arts and the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Cobham and Sir Henry Trueman Wood.

A handy book of sanitary law / by Martin Ware.

A list of the Society ... March the 21st 1759.

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