Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Active filters:

ReadingReset filters
111 results
  • A Japanese physician reading a book. Lithograph by Hanhart after C. Wirgman.
  • Chelsea Pensioners hearing the news of the battle of Waterloo, outside the Duke of York public house. Engraving by J. Burnet, 1831, after D. Wilkie, 1822.
  • The Blessed Virgin with the Christ Child, Saint Jerome, Saint Francis of Assisi, and angels reading and playing music. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Carracci.
  • A mature fat man sits in a chair reading while another man creeps up from behind. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A man sitting in a chair, reading a document to another man who holds his hat in his lap. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • An alchemist reading in a smoky study. Etching by A. Bouquet after L-G-E. Isabey.
  • A man reading a novel with an affecting plot to his wife and daughters. Drawing, ca. 1810 (?).
  • A young woman lies dying in her bed surrounded by a grieving family. Line engraving.
  • An apothecary with instruments of his profession seated in an arched window. Lithograph by M. Vernaut after G. Metsu.
  • A woman feeding her baby while her husband reads a book in a rural domestic environment. Engraving by P.A. Le Beau after A. de Gelder.
  • Books will sometimes rouse me beyond my nature... / [Dr. Jayne Company].
  • A sick man stirring his bitter medicine. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, 1824, after M.W. Sharp.
  • Astronomy and mathematics: Samuel Vince reading in his rooms at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, by the light of a shaded lamp. Aquatint by F. Jukes with engraving by J. K. Baldrey after R. C. Chilton, c.1784.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen and referring to a book. Engraving by J. Balzer after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • While Joseph works in his carpenter's shop, the angel steals into the house and announces the birth of Christ to Mary. Engraving by J. Sadeler, ca. 1615, after J. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • Saint Antony of Padua with the Christ Child and angels. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after E. Sirani.
  • The infant John the Baptist, sleeping. Engraving by Morel after Duchemin after C. Dolci.
  • The Virgin Mary with the Christ Child, Saint Matthew, Saint Carlo Borromeo and Rénier the blessed. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after A. Tiarini.
  • An apothecary with pharmaceutical equipment seated in an arched window. Etching by B.A. Dunker after G. Metsu.
  • An old woman is reading a letter out to a man and a young woman around her chair. Mezzotint, 1837, by H. Dawe after W. Thomas.
  • A man sitting in a chair reading while his leg is in traction and attached to a pulley mechanism. Wood engraving.
  • Saint Mary Magdalen. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1839, after P.G. Batoni, c.1742.
  • The levels of hell depicted as circular stone tiers; purgatory lies outside its walls. Engraving.
  • The British Museum: the interior of the reading room, in use. Wood engraving by G. F. Sargent.
  • Two people watching over the cradle of a sleeping baby at night. Aquatint after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1644.
  • Chelsea Pensioners hearing the news of the battle of Waterloo, outside the Duke of York public house. Engraving by W. Greatbach after D. Wilkie, [between 1822 and 1894].
  • A woman feeding her baby while her husband reads a book in a rural domestic environment. Engraving by P.A. Le Beau after A. de Gelder.
  • A scholar pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club. Coloured aquatint by John Caspar Ziegler after George Moutard Woodward, published by William Holland, 1798.