Artist
H. Melville
H. Melville is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This 19th-century printmaker created the H. Beard Print Collection, a set of wood-engraved scenes that look like theatrical stills. The images show sailors, harbors, and whaling ships with hatched lines and cross-hatching you can feel under your finger. A viewer in Boston or London would have pinned these prints above their desk to keep a piece of the sea close. Flip to the H. Beard Print Collection and zoom into “Off to the Whaler” to see how every rope and wave was carved from a single block of pear wood.
Works by H. Melville
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.