…shall look something like this.

…shall look something like this.
Illustration from “Radiation and Decoration,” a catalogue from the American Radiator Company (1905).
Woman Reading (Portrait of Sofia Kramskaya), after 1866, by Ivan Kramskoi:
Woman Reading by Ivan Kramskoi
Laura Reading (1885) by Walter Crane:
Laura Reading (1885) by Walter Crane
Lady Reading Poetry (1906) by Ishibashi Kazunori
Lady Reading Poetry (1906) by Ishibashi Kazunori
Woman Reading by Peter Ilsted, circa 1905:
Woman Reading by Peter Ilsted, circa 1905
Woman Reading by Karl Alexander Wilke, circa 1912:
Woman Reading by Karl Alexander Wilke, circa 1912
Interior by Kitty Lange Kielland, 1883
The Orange Book by Allen Tucker:
The Orange Book by Allen Tucker
I’m not going to lie; her fingers kind of scare me.
The Day Dream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1880