Title: Instead of Man Reading We Have the Bookworm
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1830–92
Artist:  Christopher Pearse Cranch 
Artist bio: American, Alexandria, Virginia 1813–1892 Boston, Massachusetts
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink
Dimensions: sheet: 4 7/8 x 8 3/8 in. (12.4 x 21.3 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Whitney Dall Jr., in memory of Emily Dall, 1976
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Satire, term: Reading