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  • Writers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Philosophers and writers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Writers' Buildings, Dalhousie Square, Calcutta, India: illuminated at night. Photograph, 1906.
  • Poets: twenty portraits of writers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Poets: twenty portraits of writers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Still from motion capture of Frank Letch as he writes
  • The write way to say cephalosporin is with a K.
  • The write way to say cephalosporin is with a K.
  • The write way to say cephalosporin is with a K.
  • Writers: twenty portraits of essayists and novelists. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • A man is instructing a boy on how to write. Colour lithograph.
  • A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • King James I and VI, with four Scottish writers: Robert Burns, John (?) Home, Allan Ramsay, and James Beattie. Engraving.
  • Saint Matthew, beginning to write his gospel. Engraving by W. Faithorne, 1657, after P. de Jode I.
  • A man writes on sealed crates of tea, ready for export. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Courtyard view with trees of the Leper Hospital, Amsterdam. Etching by W. Writs, 1768, after J. de Beyer, 1765.
  • Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • A man sits at a table under a large umbrella with people watching him as he writes a letter. Wood engraving.
  • Constantinople: a man sits to write a letter as two women watch over his shoulder. Coloured lithograph by J. Nash after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • Saint Matthew: with the aid of an angel he writes his gospel. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1770, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • A young man, 'Sir Fopling Flutter' ogles women through a lens while a bailiff serves him a writ. Mezzotint, 1769, by J. Dixon after himself.
  • Zacharias (father of John the Baptist), struck dumb, writes that his son should be known as John. Etching by C. Tinti, 1771, after A. del Sarto.
  • A learned physician with a library of Latin books writes a prescription but cannot save his patients from death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three nurses attempting to read thermometers as a fourth writes down the results. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A mechanism to enable an armless person to write with a pen by operating a treadle with the foot. Engraving by G. Gladwin after R. Cocking, ca. 1820.
  • A fat complacent Briton sits on a stool while a Zulu man writes "Despise not your enemy" on a blackboard. Wood engraving by Swain after J. Tenniel, 1879.
  • Athenae Oxonienses. An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford. To which are added the Fasti, or annals of the said university / By Anthony à Wood.
  • A skeleton, seated on a ledge, writes 'Recueil D'anatomie' on the cover of a book: behind him is shown an anatomy drawing and an hour-glass. Etching by or after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • His Excellency Professor Dr. von Bergmann, the celebrated Berlin surgeon, writes: : "The best means of treatment at present is the Bardella because it can be kept ready at hand for immediate use ...".
  • The genius of painting, preferring sacred to secular history, brings to the public the history of Samson, and writes a dedication to E. Colbert. Etching by J. Gillet and F. Verdier after F. Verdier, 1698.