I saw bits of Somerset House I had never seen before.

The basement vaults next door to where Henrietta Maria had her chapel:-

The Nelson staircase with Chambers’s beautiful, crisp stair treads:-

The detailing, which, according to Baretti in his Guide through the Royal Academy, was ‘carved from finished drawings by Cipriani, one of the founding RAs:-

The bust of Newton over the entrance to the Royal Society:-

And, finally, the north front in the evening sun:-