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William Reese donation.

Publication: Melville Society Extracts
Publication Date: 01-FEB-05 		Format: Online - approximately 638 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: William Reese donation.(Archive)

Article Excerpt
William Reese, the New Haven book dealer and Melville collector, has donated forty-four prints from Herman Melville's collection of art to the Melville Society Archive in New Bedford. Numerically, these prints comprise one tenth of the four hundred forty prints Melville is now known to have collected. Visually, they include engravings of two of the most arresting female figures by Old Master painters in Melville's collection: Guido's Beatrix Cenci (fig. 1) and Watteau's Finette. Also included is one of the few images by an American painter that Melville is known to have collected: an...

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