The London Institution: the interior of the library, with a vignette of the lecture theatre. Engraving by H. R. Cook after R. B. Schnebbelie, 1820.

The London Institution was founded in 1806. At first meetings were in a house, then a building was erected in Moorfields in 1819 at the behest of a number of charitable subscribers. As well as a fine library, the building housed a lecture room, used for scientific demonstrations. The Institution was demolished in 1936

See Wellcome Library catalogue no. 26237i for Schnebbelie's original drawing of the lecture theatre vignette

London (125 Fenchurch Street) : Robert Wilkinson, 4 June 1820.

1 print : engraving ; image 23.7 x 33 cm

Interior view of the library of the London Institution in Moorefields, originally founded in 1805 by the spirited exertions of 1,000 proprietors each subscribing 75 guineas. ; Schnebbelie delt. ; Cook sculp.

Not in B. Adams, London illustrated, London, 1983

Wellcome Collection 26233i