Projected Chapter Contents for Entire Catalog
Ch. 1. ANCIENT GREECE AND NEAR EAST
- CAT 1. Ancient Persian and Greek Medals
- CAT 2-5. Flaxman’s The Persians
- CAT 6-14. Ancient Greek Busts
- CAT 15-16. Ancient Greek Exploits and Sites
- CAT 17-22. Ancient Sculpture and Holy Sites
- CAT 23-49. Old Testament Illustrations from Holbein and Dutch Taferelen
- CAT 50-59. Solomonic Engravings cut from a Sudermann emblem book
- CAT 60-63. Additional Engravings cut from another Sudermann emblem book
- CAT 64-67. Cut-out engravings of Miscellaneous Sizes and Subjects
- CAT 68-69. Persian Head and Persian Tile
- MBB 1.1-4. Melville Book Boxes: Persian Queen, Turner, Holbein, Vedder
Ch. 2. ANCIENT ROME TO MODERN ITALY
- CAT 70-77. Ancient Roman Busts
- CAT 78-79. Roman Ruins, Fallen and Recreated
- CAT 80-102. Flaxman’s Dante
- CAT 103-105. Italian Renaissance Authors
- CAT 106-110. Italian Renaissance Artists
- CAT 111-116. Seventeenth-Century Italian Artists
- CAT 117-120. Nineteenth-Century Italian Subjects and Sites
- MBB 2.1-3. Melville Book Boxes: Dante, Raphael, Turner
Ch. 3. THREE CENTURIES OF FRENCH PAINTING
- CAT 121-135. Claude Lorrain
- CAT 136-143. Nicholas Poussin
- CAT 144-150. Dughet, Patel, Pérelle
- CAT 151-157 Bosse, Le Brun, Blanchard, Jouvenet
- CAT 158-161 Watteau and Boucher
- CAT 162-164 Pesne, Vernet, Saint-Aubin
- CAT 165-169 David, Regnault, Taillasson, Peyron
- CAT 170-172 Garneray and Decamps
- CAT 173-176 Meissonier, Manet, Toulmouche, Leroux
- CAT 177-181 Salons of 1879 and 1880
- CAT 182-184 Miscellaneous French-Related Artworks
- MBB 3.1-6. Melville Book Boxes: Claude, Le Brun, Vernet, Gérard, Grandville
Ch. 4. FLEMISH AND DUTCH MASTERS
- CAT 185-198. Rubens (portrait, Marie de Medici, warfare, Van Dyck)
- CAT 199-201. Rembrandt
- CAT 202-204. Teniers, van Tilborgh, van Ostade
- CAT 205-210. Van Mieris, Metsu, Netscher, Lairesse
- CAT 211-212. Van Swanevelt
- CAT 213-217. Both, Berchem, Cuyp
- CAT 218-220. Ruisdael, Hobbema, van Everdingen
- CAT 221-224. Wouverman, Potter, van der Heyden
- CAT 225-226. Nyets and Devel
- MBB 4.1-5. Melville Book Boxes: Rubens, Rembrandt, Netscher, Both, Ruysdael
Ch. 5. GERMANIC ARTISTS AND SUBJECTS
- CAT 227-229. Norblin, Wehle, Siepp
- CAT 230-237. Retzsch, Schiller’s Fridolin
- CAT 238-249. Retzsch, Schiller’s Pegasus in the Yoke
- CAT 250-254. Dresden’s Bilderchronik (Olivier, Kersting, Hantzsch, Richter, Goldstein)
- CAT 255-260. Seaport, Koken, Bournye, Nahl, Neuneg
- Plus Book Boxes for this chapter
Ch. 6. BRITISH PAINTERS AND SUBJECTS BEFORE 1800
- Early English Seascapes (Van de Velde, Monamy, Clevely
- British Antiquities and Topographical Subjects
- Early Historical Subjects and Figures
- 18th Century British
- Painters (Gainsborough, Wilson, Taylor, Kauffmann, Bartolozzi, Zuccherelli, Russell, Romney)
- Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery (and Flaxman’s Dante)
- Plus Book Boxes for this chapter
Ch. 7 NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH PAINTERS AND SUBJECTS
- J. M. W. Turner (T 1-33)—engraved mezzotint—early seascapes—1810s—1820s including mezzotints from watercolors—1830s including both Golden Boughs—1840s
- Picturesque and topographical views (Dibdin, Allom, Bartlett, H. Melville, Payne, Leitch)
- Figure and Landscape Painters (Wilkie, Stothard, Constable, Callcott, Creswick)
- Literary interpretations of Shakespeare (Leslie, Boughton), Milton (Martin), Sterne (Newton), Johnson (Ward), Byron (Westall), Scott (Landseer, Turner), and Irving (Finden)
- Stanfield’s Illustrations of Marryat’s The Pirate and The Three Cutters
- Cruikshank’s The Bottle and The Drunkard’s Children.
- Plus Book Boxes from this Chapter
Ch. 8. AMERICAN PAINTERS AND SUBJECTS
- Trumbull—Deas—Farrer—engraved portraits of Hawthorne, Lemuel Shaw. Paintings and photographs of Melville (Twitchell, Eaton).
- Visual interpretations of Melville’s writing (Toft)
CONCLUSION