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Collection: Chapter 1 -- Ancient Greece and Near East

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(CAT 69; Fig. 1) -- Elihu Vedder. The Sorry Scheme.

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(CAT 19; Fig. 1) -- Toth. The Holy Palm, Mara Saba, Palestine

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(INT Flaxman’s Aeschylus; Fig. 2) -- Back Cover of Melville’s Copy of Flaxman’s Aeschylus, The Persians

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(CAT 26; Fig 1.) -- Gerard Hoet. Dog in Cain and Abel murder scene. Tableau 5 (Genesis 4:8), Taferelen

(PT Ancient Greece and Near East; Fig. 2) -- Turkish slippers Melville brought back from 1857 visit to the Near East.

WAO 1.3. Turkish slippers from Melville's 1857 visit to the Near East. BA. Photo RKW..jpg

Source for CAT 50 in Sudermann's 1622 Emblem Book

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Van der Heyden’s depiction of the foot-washing scene in Sudermann’s 1620 emblem book.

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(CAT 69) -- Persian tile with figure of horseman and bird in fanciful landscape

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Tags: Ancient Persia; Animals; Architecture and Archeology; Berkshire County Historical Society; Framed artwork; HM Clarel; Islamic subjects; Landscapes

(CAT 68) -- Küslen after della Bella. Esclave tenant un chameu par la bride

CAT 69 MC 8 della bella young man with camel pjg.jpg

Tags: Animals; della Bella (Stephano); Etching; French language; Genre scenes; HM Journals; Islamic subjects; Küslen (J.S.); Melville Chapin Collection; Portraits

(CAT 67) -- Magnini. Capital letter C, with cupid and helmet

CAT 68 Magnini Capital letter C (with cupid and helmet) BA 35.jpg

Tags: Berkshire Athenaeum (BA); Copper engraving; Cupids; French language; L'Art (Paris); Magnini F.

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