Instead of Man Reading We Have the Bookworm

1830–92

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink
Dimensions: sheet: 4 7/8 x 8 3/8 in. (12.4 x 21.3 cm)
Collection no.: 1976.625.20(4)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Christopher Pearse Cranch. Instead of Man Reading We Have the Bookworm. Christopher Pearse Cranch; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Whitney Dall Jr., in memory of Emily Dall, 1976. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Instead of Man Reading We Have the Bookworm — Christopher Pearse Cranch. 1830–92.

Medium: Pen and brown ink. Dimensions: sheet: 4 7/8 x 8 3/8 in. (12.4 x 21.3 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Whitney Dall Jr., in memory of Emily Dall, 1976.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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