One of a selection of portraits of urban life, by Moriz Jung, In the Reading Room depicts a waiter confused by the reading materials of one of his clients. In a pre-work-from-anywhere era, people were already into the idea of working from a public café. This was so common that some cafés had reading rooms. Another famous portrait of this practice is Jacquand's Voltaire im Lesezimmer des Café Procope.
