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  • The British Museum: the Additional Library, in the north wing of the museum, looking from west to east towards the reading rooms. Engraving by Radclyffe after L. Jewitt.
  • Astronomy and mathematics: Samuel Vince reading in his rooms at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, by the light of a shaded lamp. Aquatint by F. Jukes with engraving by J. K. Baldrey after R. C. Chilton, c.1784.
  • Wellcome library: reading room
  • Photograph: Wellcome library reading room
  • The Reading Room of the Wellcome Institute.
  • The Reading Room of the Wellcome Institute.
  • The Reading Room of the Wellcome Institute.
  • Wellcome Library: plan of library and reading room
  • The Reading Room of the Wellcome Institute Library.
  • The Reading Room of the Wellcome Institute Library
  • The Reading Room of the Wellcome Institute Library.
  • Poynter, Gaskell and Walkins in library reading room, 1962
  • Boer War: the reading-room at the field hospital, Wynberg, South Africa. Halftone, 1900, after R. Thomas.
  • The British Museum: the interior of the reading room, in use. Wood engraving by G. F. Sargent.
  • The British Museum: the reading room, with many readers. Engraving by H. Melville after T. H. Shepherd.
  • The British Museum: the reading room under construction. Wood engraving by J. Brown after C. W. Sheeres, 1855.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Reading Room after reconstruction of the Library in 1962, facing east. Photograph.
  • The British Museum: the interior of the reading room, in use. Wood engraving by [I.C.] after C. Gregory, 1874.
  • McGill University: McIntyre Medical Sciences Building. Plan of the Library Reading Room, Wellcome Camera and The Osler Library.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Reading Room after reconstruction of the Library in 1962, facing north, towards the Vesalian Screen. Photograph.
  • A family group in their drawing room at evening prayer with the father reading from a large volume. Engraving by W. Holl after E. Prentis.
  • Two boys peep round a door frame into a room where a woman is reading to other young children. Engraving by T. Phillibrown after T. Webster.
  • 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 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.
  • An alchemist reading a book; his assistants stirring the crucible on the other side of the room. Engraving by P.F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist reading a book; his assistants stirring the crucible on the other side of the room. Engraving by P.F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Four nurses in a large sitting room with a parquet floor; two are reading, one is playing the piano and one is obscured by a chair. Photograph.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners are sitting at benches eating and reading as a man at the top of the room watches over them. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamay.
  • Men are sitting at tables in a club room in which the tables are lit by candles: some of the men are playing board games, others are drinking and reading. Etching.
  • Abel Beechcroft, while reading in the library of his house in Lambeth, is disturbed when Hilda Scarve is led into the room by his butler Jukes. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.