Study tables pretty much went the way of Discmans and manual cameras, what with the advent of desktop/notebook computers and all. It seems these days only the dinosaur-at-heart or the hopelessly nerdy (or both) still have an actual tabletop where they store their stuff/books, harbor their mundane little obsessions, and only occasionally actually get any work done.
Here is "A Study Table", a trompe l'oeil painting by William Harnett:
And here are shots of MY study table (the second photo being of my desk in a state of mid-spring cleaning), the second unholy chowder to befall this blog, this time one of newspaper, lost books, meticulously-accumulated CD receipts and the odd Russian nesting doll:
Other miscellaneous sights in these shots include my CD collection, Simone de Beauvoir's
The Second Sex, a Joseph Cornell biography and (in the red plastic bag) an actual 18-foot gum wrapper chain.
