Collection · 18 prints
The Letter
Someone else's words, read alone
The Letter: paintings and prints of people reading or writing letters.
Works include Johannes Vermeer's Young Woman Reading a Letter at an Open Window, Woman Reading a Letter and A Lady Writing (1650s–1660s), John Everett Millais's Yes or No? (1871) and Clarissa, Raja Ravi Varma's Shakuntala Writing Her Letter of Love, Pierre-Auguste Renoir's The Letter (1895) and Carl Larsson's Letter-Writing. Kitagawa Utamaro's ukiyo-e women reading letters form the main Japanese group. The collection also has a Chinese calligraphy letter by Wang Zhideng, an Odilon Redon lithograph and a Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph.
The selection focuses on quiet, private moments of correspondence, often a single figure absorbed in reading or writing.
These calm interiors suit studies, home offices and reading corners, and smaller prints fit above a writing desk. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
