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  • Astronomy: an astronomer in his study, reading, while holding a pair of dividers. Woodcut.
  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: college library with students reading. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • The Royal United Hospital, Bath: a nurse reading in a parlour. Photograph, ca. 1870.
  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: college library with students reading. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • Astronomy: an astronomer in his study, reading, while holding a pair of dividers. Woodcut.
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a soldier. Oil painting by Pietro Della Vecchia.
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a soldier. Oil painting by Pietro Della Vecchia.
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a soldier. Oil painting by Pietro Della Vecchia.
  • A Royal Fusilier seated reading a newspaper in a domestic setting, ca. 192-. Photograph, 195-.
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a soldier. Oil painting by Pietro Della Vecchia.
  • A Royal Fusilier seated reading a newspaper in a domestic setting, ca. 192-. Photograph, 195-.
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a soldier. Oil painting by Pietro Della Vecchia.
  • An alchemist reading in a smoky study. Etching by A. Bouquet after L-G-E. Isabey.
  • An alchemist reading in a smoky study. Etching by A. Bouquet after L-G-E. Isabey.
  • David Livingstone memorial in Blantyre; Livingstone reading the Bible to a group of African men. Photoprint.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi in the wilderness, reading a book. Etching by C.W.E. Dietrich.
  • A bishop wearing spectacles and a monk reading a book. Reproduction of a painting after Pisanello.
  • A nurse or midwife reading a thermometer and wiping it after use with cotton wool. Lithograph.
  • A nurse or midwife reading a thermometer and wiping it after use with cotton wool. Lithograph.
  • The British Museum: the interior of the reading room, in use. Wood engraving by G. F. Sargent.
  • Boer War: the reading-room at the field hospital, Wynberg, South Africa. Halftone, 1900, after R. Thomas.
  • An old woman falling asleep over reading a book. Etching by F. Novelli after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • The British Museum: the reading room, with many readers. Engraving by H. Melville after T. H. Shepherd.
  • A small girl wearing a bonnet is sitting by a hut reading a book. Coloured stipple engraving.
  • A fortune-teller reading a gentleman's palm. Engraving by B. Audran after Michelangelo Merisi, il Caravaggio, 1729.
  • A father pauses in reading to his daughter and she urges him to continue. Engraving by Hinchliff.
  • The British Museum: the reading room under construction. Wood engraving by J. Brown after C. W. Sheeres, 1855.
  • A young shepherdess reading an improving book while looking after her flock. Line engraving by C. Mellan, 1680.
  • An old man is reading while his valets are attending to his toilet. Aquatint by F. Goya, 1812/1888.
  • A man reading a novel with an affecting plot to his wife and daughters. Drawing, ca. 1810 (?).