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Adjustable reading and writing table (pupitre à crémaillère, servant de table)
Martin Carlin
ca. 1760–65
Writing table (bureau plat)
Gilles Joubert
1759
Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill
Pieter Claesz
1628
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)
Jacques Gondouin
1779
Russians Reading and Writing
Utagawa Yoshikazu
1861 (Bunkyu 1st year, 2nd month)
Combined work, writing, and reading table and music stand
Martin Carlin
ca. 1775–80
Boiserie from the Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse
French, Paris
ca. 1774, with later additions
Man Seated With His Reading and Writing Materials before Him
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
Embroidered Picture
Mary Wright
ca. 1754
Reading a Sutra by Moonlight
Jifei Ruyi (Sokuhi Nyoitsu)
17th century, after 1661
Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud
Georges Jacob
1788
Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “Dream in Naniwa” Design
Japan
18th century
Carpet (tapis)
Savonnerie Manufactory
mid-17th century
Frieze ornament depicting the theme of reading and writing
French or German
before 1783
Cover of a Writing Tablet
French
ca. 1325–50
Architect's table
David Roentgen
ca. 1780–95
Miniature Relief of Saint John the Evangelist at His Writing Table
German
1200–1225
Writing and Reading Box
German, Nuremberg
ca. 1570
Seated Bishop
Tilman Riemenschneider
ca. 1495
Game table
David Roentgen
ca. 1780–83
Mechanical table
Jean-François Oeben
ca. 1761–63
Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Painter of Munich 2660
ca. 460 BCE
Writing Tablet
British
14th century
Writing Box
North Italian, Venice (?)
ca. 1550–80
Reading chair
British
ca. 1750
Young Man Writing and Reading from Large Volume at His Left
Baron Dominique Vivant Denon
n.d.
Writing table
Christophe Wolff
ca. 1760–70
Four Ladies Sitting around a Table Occupied with Needlework, Reading, and Writing (recto); Study of a Woman with Needlework (verso)
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
1758

Courtesan Writing a Letter

Kaigetsudō Doshin
ca. 1715
Linen from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
ca. 1336–1327 B.C.
Sampler
Lydia Pearson
1802

Courtesan Reading a Letter

Ishikawa Toyonobu
mid-18th century
St. Jerome reading
Isaac Oliver
16th–17th century
Illustrated London Almanack
Samuel John Carter
1871–75
Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun
'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki
ca. 1329–35
Papyrus inscribed with accounts of beer and bulls
ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “The Lady of the Bridge” Design

Japan
18th century
A Courtesan Reading a Book
Unidentified
ca. 1655–61

Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru

Huang Tingjian
ca. 1095
Reading a sutra by moonlight
Unidentified artist
ca. 1332