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Background imageWriter Collection: Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poe. Engraved reproduction of a 19th-century daguerrotype

Background imageWriter Collection: La Fontaine, Moliere, Racine, and other French writers, 1600s

La Fontaine, Moliere, Racine, and other French writers, 1600s
Conversation among French authors La Fontaine, Boileau, Moliere, and Racine. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson. Hand-colored engraving of an 18th-century portrait

Background imageWriter Collection: Louis XIV and Moliere having breakfast

Louis XIV and Moliere having breakfast
Moliere at breakfast with Louis XIV at Versailles Palace. Hand-colored photogravure reproduction of a painting

Background imageWriter Collection: Jane Austin

Jane Austin
Portrait of Jane Austin, English novelist. Hand-colored engraving

Background imageWriter Collection: Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine

Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine
Greek physician Hippocrates. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an illustration of a bust

Background imageWriter Collection: PBLA2D-00010

PBLA2D-00010
Quill pen in the hand of the Phyllis Wheatley statue, Boston Womens Memorial. Digital photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe, author of " Robinson Crusoe." Digitally colored engraving of a portrait

Background imageWriter Collection: Poet Robert Burns

Poet Robert Burns
Robert Burns, with his autograph. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a painting

Background imageWriter Collection: Joseph Smith translating the Book of Mormon

Joseph Smith translating the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith translating the Mormon " Golden Bible" aloud to Oliver Cowdery, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: Charles Dickens writing

Charles Dickens writing
Charles Dickens at his writing desk. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: Robert Burns site Tam O Shanter Tavern

Robert Burns site Tam O Shanter Tavern
Tam O Shanter Tavern of poems by Robert Burns. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: Scribe copying manuscripts in the Middle Ages

Scribe copying manuscripts in the Middle Ages
Medieval scribe writing at a desk, surrounded by open manuscripts. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: Japanese poet under a cherry tree

Japanese poet under a cherry tree
Japanese mother and infant meeting a poet under a cherry tree. Lithograph reproduction of a painting by Genjiro Kataoka, circa 1910

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2C-00110

PLIT2C-00110
Walt Whitman and his first edition title page of " Leaves of Grass." Composite art of hand-colored woodcut and document

Background imageWriter Collection: Medieval monks studying manuscripts

Medieval monks studying manuscripts
Benedictine monks poring over medieval manuscripts. Antique hand-colored print

Background imageWriter Collection: Rabelais

Rabelais
Portrait of Francois Rabelais. Hand-colored reproduction of a portrait

Background imageWriter Collection: Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen
Portrait of author Hans Christian Andersen. Digitally colored woodcut of a 19th-century portrait

Background imageWriter Collection: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853, with her signature. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a drawing by George Richardson

Background imageWriter Collection: Writing with a quill pen

Writing with a quill pen
Scholar using a quill pen. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author Nathaniel Hawthorne, with his autograph. Digitally colored photogravure reproduction of a portrait

Background imageWriter Collection: Medieval monks studying geometry and copying a manuscript

Medieval monks studying geometry and copying a manuscript
Monk scholars - a mathematician studying a globe, the other copying a manuscript, 1200s. Hand-colored woodcut

Background imageWriter Collection: Herodotus, the Father of History

Herodotus, the Father of History
Greek historian Herodotus. Hand-colored 17th-century engraving

Background imageWriter Collection: Assyrian or Babylonian scribes

Assyrian or Babylonian scribes using flexible media as well as clay tablets for cuneiform writing. Hand-colored 19th-century halftone reproduction of ancient artwork

Background imageWriter Collection: Assyrian leaders and a scribe

Assyrian leaders and a scribe
Assyrian leaders accompanied by a scribe. Antique hand-colored print

Background imageWriter Collection: Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin
Physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin. Digitally colored woodcut of an 18th-century painting

Background imageWriter Collection: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson portrait, standing. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century portait

Background imageWriter Collection: PEXP2A-00118

PEXP2A-00118
Bartolome de Las Casas, Spanish missionary and New World historian. Hand-colored woodcut

Background imageWriter Collection: BUSN2A-00090

BUSN2A-00090
Scribes using the stylus and other means of writing in ancient times. Hand-colored woodcut

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00031

PLIT2A-00031
William Shakespeare writing in his study. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: Monk copying a medieval manuscript

Monk copying a medieval manuscript
Medieval copyist writing a manuscript on a sheet of vellum, 1400s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut of an earlier illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: Roman emperor

Roman emperor, with a lictor bearer and poet. Antique hand-colored print

Background imageWriter Collection: Paul writing the Epistles

Paul writing the Epistles
Paul in a Roman prison, writing the Epistles. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: Saint Luke

Saint Luke
Luke, disciple of Jesus and author of Biblical Gospel of Luke. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: BUSN2A-00246

BUSN2A-00246
Reporter interviewing people in the financial district, New York City, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: BUSN2A-00245

BUSN2A-00245
Reporters working a murder story, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone of an illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: PMUS2A-00005

PMUS2A-00005
Camille Saint-Saens in his traveling clothes, 1869. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00050

PLIT2A-00050
William Shakespeare. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of the First Folio portrait

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00068

PLIT2A-00068
William Sydney Porter, known as O. Henry. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00061

PLIT2A-00061
Henry David Thoreau at age 43. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00076

PLIT2A-00076
Mercy (Otis) Warren, American author. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a portrait

Background imageWriter Collection: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century portrait

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00090

PLIT2A-00090
Noah Webster, American lexicographer, surrounded by books. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century portrait

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00109

PLIT2A-00109
Walt Whitman during the Civil War in Washington DC, 1863. Hand-colored woodcut of a portrait from life

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00108

PLIT2A-00108
Charles Dickens. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00117

PLIT2A-00117
John Greenleaf Whittier in 1838. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00111

PLIT2A-00111
Jules Verne. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott
American author Louisa May Alcott. Digitally colored woodcut of a 19th-century portrait



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