The Royal Society mace Size:Large: 7 x 5in Original is oil on canvas

Original is oil on canvas 61x21

Inscribed below: 'The EXPLANATORY Print

Figure 3 Tumour hanging from its 'nutritive vessels'

Safety lamp designs and details comprising figures 1-8 of the published plate

View of Elm Grove in Lewisham

The Royal Society mace Size:Large: 7 x 5in Original is oil on canvasThe silver gilt mace was a gift from King Charles II in 1663. It is decorated with a running pattern of roses and thistles on the stem, and the embossed figures of a rose, harp, thistle and fleur de lys on the head, emblematic of Engladn, Ireland, Scotland and France. The letters 'C. R.' denote Charles II, and an inscription on a shield at the base describes Charles as the Society's 'founder and patron'. 1663