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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: 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: Edgar Allen Poe

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

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: 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: Poet Robert Burns

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

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: 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: 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: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00162

PLIT2A-00162
Thomas Hardy. Hand-colored halftone of a photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: Mark Twain

Mark Twain
Portrait of Samuel Clemens, with his Mark Twain autograph. Engraved reproduction of a photograph

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: 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

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00197

PLIT2A-00197
Percy Bysshe Shelley. Hand-colored woodcut from a portrait by Miss Curran

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00207

PLIT2A-00207
William Wordsworth. Hand colored engraving of a drawing from life

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2D-00001

PLIT2D-00001
Statue of Mercy Otis Warren in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Digital photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2D-00004

PLIT2D-00004
Statue of French writer Michel de Montaigne, Paris. Digital photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: Dante

Dante
Statue of Dante Alighiere. 19th-century photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: BUSN2A-00155

BUSN2A-00155
Writing master using a quill pen. Hand-colored engraving of an illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00003

PLIT2A-00003
Alexis de Tocqueville. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century portrait

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00004

PLIT2A-00004
Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a drawing by George Richardson

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00017

PLIT2A-00017
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) in New York visiting his publishers, 1900s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00032

PLIT2A-00032
Dinner at the house of Moliere at Auteuil, France, 1600s. Photogravure reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00039

PLIT2A-00039
Samuel Johson and James Boswell at the Literary Club, London, 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00044

PLIT2A-00044
William Shakespeare, with his autograph. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: PLIT2A-00043

PLIT2A-00043
William Shakespeare. Hand-colored engraving

Background imageWriter Collection: PBLA2A-00006

PBLA2A-00006
Poet Phyllis Wheatly. Hand-colored woodcut of an 18th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: PBLA2A-00027

PBLA2A-00027
George Washington Williams, African-American author, with his signature. Digitally colored woodcut

Background imageWriter Collection: PBLA2D-00007

PBLA2D-00007
Phyllis Wheatley statue, Boston Womens Memorial. Digital photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: PBLA2D-00008

PBLA2D-00008
Phyllis Wheatley statue, Boston Womens Memorial. Digital photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: PBLA2D-00009

PBLA2D-00009
Phyllis Wheatley statue, Boston Womens Memorial. Digital photograph

Background imageWriter Collection: Art and literature in the Augustine Age, ancient Rome

Art and literature in the Augustine Age, ancient Rome
Augustine Age, ancient Romes flowering of art and learning under Caesar Augustus. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Background imageWriter Collection: PREV2A-00063

PREV2A-00063
Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, with his autograph. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a portrait


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