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, van Dyck
- CAT 199-201. Rembrandt
- CAT 202-204. Teniers, van Tilborgh, van Ostade
- CAT 205-210. Van Mieris, Metsu, Netscher
- CAT 211-213 Van de Velde, Unknown, Lairesse
- CAT 214-218 Swanevelt, Both, Berchem
- CAT 219-223 Cuyp, Ruisdael, Hobbema, Potter
- CAT 224-227 Wouverman, Van der Heyden, Van Everdingen
- CAT 228-229 Nyets, Devel
Ch. 5. GERMANIC ARTISTS AND SUBJECTS
- CAT 230-233. Kilian, Norblin, Wehle, Siepp
- CAT 234-241. Retzsch, Schiller’s Fridolin
- CAT 242-253. Retzsch, Schiller’s Pegasus in the Yoke
- CAT 254-258. Dresden’s Bilderchronik (Olivier, Kersting, Hantzsch, Richter, Goldstein)
- CAT 259-264. Seaport, Koken, Bournye, Nahl, Neuneg
Ch. 6. J.M.W. TURNER ON LAND AND AT SEA
- CAT 265-268. 1800s: Young Man at Sea
- CAT 269-272. 1810s: Pastoral Present and the Myth of History
- CAT 273-280. 1820s: Picturesque Views at Home and Abroad
- CAT 281-289. 1830s: Making History Visible
- CAT 290-294. 1840s: Dissolving Light and Beating Heart
Ch. 7. 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)
Ch. 8. NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH PAINTERS AND SUBJECTS
- 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.
Ch. 9. AMERICAN PAINTERS AND SUBJECTS
- Trumbull—Deas—Farrer—engraved portraits of Hawthorne, Lemuel Shaw.
- Paintings and photographs of Melville (Twitchell, Eaton).
- Art inspired by Melville’s writing in his lifetime (Toft)
CONCLUSION