A photo-etching of a domed atrium criss-crossed by thin rays of light. In 2012, members of the Royal Academy presented Queen Elizabeth II with a portfolio of 105 works on paper to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee. This followed the presentation of similar portfolios by the Royal Academicians in the Queen's Coronation and Silver Jubilee years, 1953 and 1977.

Sir Philip Dowson was one of Britain's leading post-war architects. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1985 and served as its President from 1993-99. He read History of Art at Clare College, Cambridge, and went on to become founding partner and later chief architect of Arup Associates, a firm highly praised for its sensitively Modernist designs. Important projects include the redevelopment of the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in London, and student accommodation buildings in Oxford and Cambridge. He returned to his alma mater to complete designs for the Forbes Mellon Library at Clare College, Cambridge, which was opened in 1986. This print shows light flooding into an atrium at the centre of the library.