Helluones librorum (Bookworms)

Helluones librorum (Bookworms)

Joshua Kirby Baldrey, Aquatint by Francis Jukes, After Robert Chilton, Samuel Vince

Holberg skriver sine epistler

Wilhelm Marstrand

Under the Lamp ("Once upon a midnight dreary..."), from The Raven (Le Corbeau)

Édouard Manet

The Sunbeam

Christoffel Bisschop

Under the Lamp ("Once upon a midnight dreary..."), from The Raven (Le Corbeau)

Édouard Manet

Man in Eighteenth-Century Dress, Seated at Table and Reading

Charles Bargue

The Philosopher

Alphonse Legros

Illustration design for "The Economy of Human Life"

Frank Howard, Related author Robert Dodsley

Writing the Emancipation Proclamation (from Confederate War Etchings)

Adalbert John Volck

The Philosopher (Bearded Old Man Copying Book)

Thomas Rowlandson, After John Hamilton Mortimer

The Evening Lamp

Julian Alden Weir

Anecdotes: Proof

George Cruikshank