Subject
Writing

Writing is a subject in art. The gallery holds 183 works in this subject in art, including works by Thomas Eakins, Francis William Edmonds and William Sidney Mount.
Writing is the act of creating a persistent, usually visual representation of language on a surface. As a structured system of communication, writing is also known as written language.
Key artists
Works
Portrait of an Olivetan Monk
Portrait of a Man, possibly Jan Snoeck
The Calling of Saint Matthew
The Curious
Saint John on Patmos
Self-Portrait
The Writing Master
The Arab Sage
Taking the Census
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Edward Miles (1752–1828)
Book Cover
Allegory of Lyric Poetry
Saint Matthew and the Angel
Famous Women
Padre Sebastiano
明 杜堇 伏生授經圖 軸|The Scholar Fu Sheng Transmitting the Book of Documents
The Little Schoolmistress
懐月堂度辰筆 文を書く遊女図|Courtesan Writing a Letter
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A woman writing a letter
The House Maid
A Young Woman Writing a Letter
Figures with Calligraphy of a Passage from the "Heike Monogatari" ("The Tales of Heike")
Woman writing a letter
Young Woman Writing a Letter
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Louis XVIII in his study at the Tuileries
『青楼七小町』 「玉屋内花紫」|“Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya,” from the series Seven Komachi of the Pleasure Quarters (Seirō Nana Komachi)
The Recording of Precedents: Confucius and His Pupils Collate and Transcribe Documents in Their Favorite Grove; Color Study for Mural, Supreme Court Room, Minnesota State Capitol, Saint Paul
Treaty of Loeben, April 17, 1797
The Letter Writer
Philibert Orry (1689-1747)
Jean-Etienne-Marie, Count Portalis, Minister of Worship (1749-1807)
Trompe l'oeil of a Letter Rack with Christian V's Proclamation
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Taira no Kanemori of the Thirty-six Poetic Immortals
Officer Writing a Letter, with a Trumpeter and a Dog
『閨の雛形』 正月|Plate from the Erotic Book Mounds of Dyed Colors: A Pattern Book for the Boudoir (Someiro no yama neya no hinagata), First Month
A Man Writing at his Desk
Behind-Glass Painting with Calligraphed Saying: The Blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God Purifies us from all Sin
Account of the Three Springs of Jiangsu Province in China
A Venetian Lawyer at His Desk
The Evangelists
Portrait of the painter Isidore Verheyden
Artist in his Studio
Officer writing a letter
Writing to Father
The Studio
Portrait of Thomas Moore in his Study at Sloperton Cottage
The Bibliophile
The Schoolmistress
Mary Magdalene Writing
Paon (Sketches by the Artists of the Young Poland from the Café "Paon" of Ferdynand Turliński)
The Artist's Son Writing
"Expected--alarming rise in the price of soap!"
Manuscript Pages [verso]
Dancers and Performers (Page from a Sketchbook)
A Versailles juillet 1919
Manuscript Pages [recto]
Shepard Alonzo Mount, Age Twenty-Three [recto]
Angels Descending to the Daughters of Men
H. Wood Sullivan - "The Shaver"
The Scholar
Self-portrait
Lady writing a love letter
The Little Recording Angel
The Letter
The Little Student
Rosmersholm
The Letter
A Man Writing at a Table
Young Man Writing by Lamplight
Copy of "Système de Magnée - Veritable Position de la Main et de la Plume" from François Magnée's
"Le Parfait calligraphe, ou Méthode pour apprendre soi-même a écrire en peu de leçons"
Archeologist (L'archeologue)
Louisa Hammond
Autoportrait à l'âge de dix-huit ans
Porträt des Leo Tolstoy
Poem (The Hermit Does Not Sleep at Night)
The Courtesan Moshio Reading a Book
Preface from Album of Paintings by Haizan
Charles VII prêt a partir pour aller combattre les anglais
Calligraphy 「鵬齋逸才子」 書
A Spanish Letter-Writer
Portrait of Emile Verhaeren
Χωρίς Τίτλο
The Writer
Rejsedagbog
Χωρο-Δυναμική Κατασκευή
A Calling
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Young Girl Writing a Love Letter
Kirjoittava tyttö
Jeweller pasting kingfisher feathers on a silver-gilt frame
The Valentine
Painting Room of Mr Baxter, No 1 Goldsmith Street, Gough Square, London
「一陽連文房四友 硯 伯英」『春雨集』 摺物帖|The Chinese Calligrapher Boying (Japanese: Hakuei; also known as the “Sage of Cursive Script”); “Inkstone” (Suzuri), from Four Friends of the Writing Table for the Ichiyō Poetry Circle (Ichiyō-ren Bunbō shiyū) From the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1
唐子書画図|Chinese Boys Learning to Write and Paint
「一陽連文房四友 筆 道風」『春雨集』 摺物帖|The Heian Court Calligrapher Ono no Tōfū (894–966); “Calligraphy Brush” (Fude), from Four Friends of the Writing Table for the Ichiyō Poetry Circle (Ichiyō-ren Bunbō shiyū)From the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1
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玉花子栄茂図|Gyoku-kashi Eimo Preparing Calligraphy Offerings
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魯西亜|Russians Reading and Writing
江戸高名会亭尽 湯島 松琴亭|Yushima (Matsu Kane-ya)
書初め図|Young Woman Writing Calligraphy
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Orosia|Russian Printers
青楼美人合|The Courtesan Kasugano Writing a Letter
Σχέδιο εξωφύλλου για το βιβλιαράκι του V. Khlebnikov "Doski Sudby", που εκδόθηκε μετά το θάνατο του.
Σελίδα χωρίς τίτλο από τον "Άτλαντα των Σκιών"
At Versailles, July 1919
『北国五色墨』「おいらん」|“High-Ranking Courtesan” (Oiran), from the series Five Shades of Ink in the Northern Quarter (Hokkoku goshiki-zumi),
墨をする官女『春雨集』 摺物帖|Court Lady at Her Writing TableFrom the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 3
Fragment No. 1
Crofton Croker
BIGDIM
The monumenr of Ann, wife of Francis Waring
25 luxury homes
The Art of Three Worlds (the generative condition)
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Sketches of a figure writing at a pedestal table, and a figure lighting a pipe
Et telegram
Trompe l'oeil of a Letter Rack with Christian V's Proclamation
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The Courtesan Writing from a Book from the series A Collection of Beautiful Women of the Yoshiwara
Woman Writing
Hands Drypointing
Wanted a Curate
The Lithograph
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