Exterior view of the Royal Society's house with a street scene containing five characters, including two women in conversation and a boy selling fish from a basket, door-to-door. Inscribed "House occupied by the Royal Society, Crane Court, Fleet Street. C.J.Smith sculp. William Pickering, Chancery Lane." Originally published within part V of "Historical and Literary Curiosities", engraved by C.J.Smith (London, Pickering, 1837).