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Digitally generated image of Robert Hooke. This was the winning entry of the 'Portraying Robert Hooke' competition run by the Library of the Royal Society in 2003 to mark the tercentenary of Robert Hooke's death. The prize was donated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. One of an edition of six.

Charles Jervas (1675-1739)

The first eight female Queen's Scholars, depicted in front of the doorway to College.

Pelham sits on the left to the front of the composition. He is depicted with dark blue-grey eyes and heavy eyebrows nearly concealing a wart above his right eye. His long grey wig falling in front of his left shoulder and behind his right. He wears his chancellor's gown with gold lace over black coat, with a flocked details, lace cravat and wrist ruffles. Pelham is seated in a plain red chair, draped curtain behind, a letter without writing in his left hand. On the right sits John Roberts, with dark blue-grey eyes and dark brows. He is positioned behind a table draped with a green cloth. Roberts wears a red coat with the top button fastened and lace cuffs; he holds a quill to a page and further papers topped by an inkstand holding a second quill can be seen on the extreme right. Behind Roberts is an archway with sky and trees visible beyond. The composition is lit from the top left.

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, bust-length, wearing a white dress and jewelled veil. Inscribed 'Queen Elisabeth' on the cartellino upper left.

Three-quarters length portrait of Lacy as a Queen's Scholar; he is standing near a window, wearing a gown, a mortar board is beside him. In the background through a window can be seen the Hawksmoor Towers of the Abbey as they would appear from Victoria Street.

Sackville stands in a rural landscape, he is wearing blue and red and holds a cricket bat in his right hand; to the right is a clump of trees and to the left a cricket ball and set of stumps; the grass is parched and yellowish. Inscribed with 'Lord George Sackville'

Half-length portrait of Dolben, whose head is inclined to the right; he wears a brown coat, green waistcoat and a white shirt and cravat, the background is a shade of blue.