Reading Rabelais — Jehan Georges Vibert

Don Quixote Reads a Sonnet — Gustave Doré

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The Tube Train — Cyril E. Power

Inside a Tent in the Canadian Rockies — John Singer Sargent

Man Reading — Eduard von Gebhardt

World of Books — Winsor McCay

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Vasiliy Luzhsky on Vacation in London’s Hyde Park — Boris Kustodiev

Goliath Bookplate — Tom Gauld

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Ah! Moebius! — Jean Giraud

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Map Reading — Stanley Spencer

Cardinal, Reading a Letter — Jehan Georges Vibert

Mufti Reading in His Prayer Stool — Jean-Leon Gerome

Maxim Gorky Reading in The Penates His Drama Children of the Sun — Ilya Repin

The Novelist — Frantisek Kupka

Francisco d’Andrade, Reading a Newspaper — Max Slevogt

Randolph Churchill Reading — Winston Churchill

The Execution — Carel Willink