onsdag 30 juni 2010

Reading today

Sketch of a man sitting in a bath wearing
a suit and reading the paper, probably for
a Punch cartoon, c. 1850s
John Leech, 1817-1864

tisdag 29 juni 2010

Reading today

Young Girl Reading, c. 1908
Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926

måndag 28 juni 2010

Reading today

Kathleen Newton In An Armchair, 1878
James Jacques Joseph Tissot
1836-1902

söndag 27 juni 2010

Reading today

Reading Lisbeth
Carl Larsson

lördag 26 juni 2010

Reading today

Lev Tolstoy
Ilya Efimovich Repin

fredag 25 juni 2010

A Young Boy Reading, Scotland, c. 1890
Arthur Melville
1858-1904

torsdag 24 juni 2010

Reading today

Grandma's Love, 1995
Colin Bootman

onsdag 23 juni 2010

Reading today

Portrait of Joseph Baretti
Sir Joshua Reynolds
1723-1792

tisdag 22 juni 2010

Reading today

Portrait of the Author Viktor Shklovsky
Robert Rafailovic Falk

måndag 21 juni 2010

Reading today

Seated Woman With A Book, 1906
Lesser Ury, 1861-1931

söndag 20 juni 2010

Reading today

Happy Thoughts
William Oliver
1804-1853

lördag 19 juni 2010

Reading today

Girl Reading, c. 1850
George Frederic Watts
1817-1904

fredag 18 juni 2010

Reading today

The Ghost Story
Frederick Smallfield
1829-1915

torsdag 17 juni 2010

Reading today

Henrietta Reading, 1949
Henry Lamb, 1883-1960

onsdag 16 juni 2010

Reading today

A detail of the painting Our Lady of

the Fly, attributed to Gerard David

and/or someone of the circle of Jan Mabuse

tisdag 15 juni 2010

Reading today

The Fasting of St. Charles, c. 1625
Daniele Crespi, 1598-1630

Reading today

At Home: A Portrait, 1872
Walter Crane

måndag 14 juni 2010

Reading today

Sunday Afternoon, 1850-67
Edward Thompson Davis
1833-1867

söndag 13 juni 2010

lördag 12 juni 2010

Reading today

In The Library Aka Three School Girls
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1858-1924

fredag 11 juni 2010

Reading today

Summer Reading
George Van Hook
American, born 1954

torsdag 10 juni 2010

Reading today

Portrait of Edmond Duranty, 1879
Edgar Degas, 1834-1917

onsdag 9 juni 2010

Reading today

Seated feminine figure
Ignacio Pinazo Camarlech
1849-1916

tisdag 8 juni 2010

Reading today

Book and Picture Shop
Salomon De Bray,
1597-1664

måndag 7 juni 2010

Reading today

The House Maid
William McGregor Paxton
American, 1869–1941

söndag 6 juni 2010

lördag 5 juni 2010

Reading today

Man reading in a Park, 1914
August Macke


fredag 4 juni 2010

Reading today

Portrait of John Calvin

torsdag 3 juni 2010

How is it possible

that five months of this year already have disappeared?



June.—Now it is time to cut the grass and make hay. It is very pleasant to go and help. See how soon the grass withers after it is cut. "In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth." Little children often seem very well, but on a sudden they are taken ill, and die;—they are compared to grass and flowers.

The sun is working overtime, and we move around the house to stay in the shade.
The summer is still very young — it's good to know that we have the most of this lovely season is in front of us.
But I know only too well that I'll soon ask myself, and you, what happened to the summer. I wish the modern summers were as long as my childhood's summers — those carefree summers that lasted an eternity.



Ahh, it's cool in the hedge.

Reading today

Mr Taylor, Hayman's pupil, in the Print
Room of the British Museum, c.1820
John Thomas Smith, 1766-1833

onsdag 2 juni 2010

Reading today

Claude Monet Reading A Newspaper
Pierre Aguste Renoir

tisdag 1 juni 2010

Reading today

Summer Issue, 1861
Seymour Joseph Guy
1824-1910