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  • Portrait of Stephen Paget reading newspaper.
  • A man is sitting on a small sofa reading a newspaper. Lithograph.
  • A Royal Fusilier seated reading a newspaper in a domestic setting, ca. 192-. Photograph, 195-.
  • A Royal Fusilier seated reading a newspaper in a domestic setting, ca. 192-. Photograph, 195-.
  • A man is sitting in a large chair reading a newspaper. Engraving by C.W. Sharpe after T.S. Goode.
  • A group of people are gathered around a couple reading a newspaper. Engraving by W. Taylor after Sir David Wilkie.
  • A barber shaving a man while another man distracts him by reading from a newspaper entitled "The true sun". Coloured lithograph.
  • A barber reading political news from a newspaper to his client; in the background another man listens too. Mezzotint after T. Clater (?).
  • A seated man reading a newspaper in a kitchen (?), a basket by his feet. Engraving by C.W. Sharpe after T.S. Goode.
  • A man reading a newspaper supplied in a coffee house and reading room turns to ask a seated man if he has read the leader article, to whch he receives the reply that he has not, owing to the failings of newspapers. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • A naked woman is lying on the ground on her right side reading a newspaper, her head resting on her raised right hand. She pushes herself up, stands and walks away, newspaper in her left hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Children sit round a table reading a newspaper while another child tries to prevent a woman from entering the room. Process print after Alexander H. Burr.
  • A cartoon figure of a man reading a newspaper with the heading 'VIHPS Revue' outside a newspaper kiosk bearing further AIDS-related headlines; an advertisement in Basque by the Associació Ciutadana AntiSIDA de Catalunya. Colour lithograph by Azagra Pevuelta, ca. 1994.
  • A doctor reading a newspaper article on the prospect of a decrease in influenza - his wife hopes for the reverse. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1892.
  • Two dustmen are sitting at a table in a coffee house: one is reading parliamentary reports in the newspaper supplied by the establishment while the other waits patiently to read it for its scientific announcements. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • Two gay men in bed, one of them disturbing the other who is reading a newspaper by trying to peep into his underpants; advertising Thursday gay breakfasts at the Berliner AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Men and woman are sitting at tables in the open air reading newspapers. Aquatint.
  • Groups of people are gathered outside a building reading newspapers and letters. Engraving by C.W. Sharpe after Frederick Goodall.
  • Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone in central Africa, reading British newspapers. Process print after Pearson after J.B. Zwecker.
  • Baden-Baden, Germany: Gustav Stresemann sitting on the terrace of a grape-cure establishment, reading the newspapers. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club. Coloured aquatint by John Caspar Ziegler after George Moutard Woodward, published by William Holland, 1798.
  • Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club. Coloured aquatint by John Caspar Ziegler after George Moutard Woodward, published by William Holland, 1798.
  • A male and female 'daruma' in a domestic setting, the man reads a modern newspaper. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoshi, 187-.
  • A monkey wearing spectacles reads the Times newspaper, with the Examiner under his arm, sitting beside a globe. Etching by T. Landseer, 1827.
  • A landlord, while fishing, reads property advertisements in the newspaper and exclaims at the levels of rent being asked. Coloured lithograph by A.J.L. Jazet, 1843.
  • A man sitting in a bar reflects on the obituaries he has read in the daily newspaper which he holds in his hand. Lithograph by F.D.
  • An American man reads from a newspaper with amazement the latest news on the Mexican war, surrounded by an attentive group of men. Etching by A. Jones after a painting by R.C. Woodville, 1851.
  • A London hair-dresser's shop: a barber shaves a man; a young woman who is having her hair cut recognizes another customer; and a man who rents the upper part reads the Sunday newspaper. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, having fled to Bournemouth, reads in a newspaper that he is being sought by the police for his part in the mismanagement of the canal's financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • A boy telling his aunt the advantages of placing her name on the Social Register. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.