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03 September 2018

Reading Women on Postcards

Girl Reading (1909), by Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938). Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Young Woman Reading a Letter, by Kitagawa Utamaro II (Edo perior, c. latter half of the Bunka era, 1810-1818). Both postcards sent by Bryon (the USA).

Postcards sent by John (the UK):

The cover of The Nursery Alice, first published in 1890, designed and coloured by Emily Gertrude Thomson.

Girl with a dachsund, 1903. Postallove collection.

Reading girl, Alice Fidler, 1912. Postallove collection.


Image by Oliver Bliss, 2014. The Jaye Resource Library and LGBT Zine Library housed at Manchester's LGTB Centre, Sidney Street.

4 comments:

  1. J'adore tes trois posts sur les femmes ,les hommes et même le chat lisant,je commence justement le livre de Bernard Pivot et de sa fille Cécile "lire " largement illustré de tableaux ,photos ,dessins, bibliothèques ayant rapport avec la lecture ,un pur bonheur !

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  2. On n'y trouve le tableau "hall d’hôtel" D Edward Hopper 1943

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    1. Beaucoup des tableaux de Hopper ont des rapports avec la lecture, n'est-ce pas?

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