Abigail Read (page 12)

The Camp at Aldershott: Soldiers' Reading Room 1868 Anonymous

Captain Avery receiving three chests of Treasure on board of his Ship English School

Opening of the Booksellers' Provident Retreat, at Abbots Langley, 1846 Anonymous

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay English School

Working Men's Reading Room, at Carlisle Anonymous

Portrait of John Hancock, Seated and Reading Anonymous

Head of a Woman 'Medusa', 1923 Alexej von Jawlensky

New Reading Room at the Bank of England, Opened on Wednesday Anonymous

The Road from London to Aberistwith on the Sea Coast John Ogilby

The Reader Jean-Jacques Henner

Reader Daniel Cacouault

Map bounded by Franklin Street, West Broadway, Reade Street, West Street. 1852, 1854 Anonymous

Woman reading in a dark room with a candle Cornelis van der Sys

Study for Amfortas Released by Galahad in The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, c.1893-1901 Edwin Austin Abbey

Girls Reading on Park Bench Anonymous

Captain Walker, 30th Regiment, reading general orders, Crimean War Roger Fenton

Women Reading Mary Stevenson Cassatt

Reading the News Sir David Wilkie

1940s child reading newspaper comics smiling Anonymous

Detail of an illustration from 'Anvār-i Suhaylī, a collection of fables by Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī', by Khashifi Indian School

Reading by the Sea Alfred Wordsworth Thompson

The Babylon Harlot seated on the Seven-Headed Beast, from the Apocalypse Jean Duvet

Reading the Declaration of Independence Anonymous

Abraham and Sarah before Abimelech, 1681 Johann Heinrich Roos

Study of a Young Girl's Head and Shoulders, 1896-97 James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Beads (study) Two Women on a Sofa, 1875 Albert Joseph Moore

Head of Gabrielle Pierre Auguste Renoir

Layla Reading to Majnun, who sits under a tree by a lotus pool, Delhi, c.1720-40 Dal Chand

Egypt and Nubia, Volume I: The Great Temple of Aboo-Simble, Nubia, 1846 Louis Haghe

Dreams, c.1861 Frederick William Burton

Page 34. White-breasted Sea Eagle Allied to the Axillary Falcon Unknown artist

The Sixth Reading Room of The British Museum, published in 'London Interiors', 1841 Thomas Hosmer Shepherd

Reading, 1879 James McNeill Whistler

The Young Bride and the Dead Wives, detail Daniel Cacouault

Woman's Head, c.1890 Paul Albert Besnard

Illicilliwaet Valley and the Canadian Pacific Railway seen from Mount Abbot Glacier William Notman