The Bookworm

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

The Bookworm (German: Der Bücherwurm) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the German painter and poet Carl Spitzweg. The picture was made c. 1850 and is typical of Spitzweg's humorous, anecdotal style and it is characteristic of Biedermeier art in general.

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Image: Carl Spitzweg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.