Melville and the visual arts: Ionian form, Venetian tint

The sister arts : "I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas"

The arts observed : "old blurred, bewrinkled mezzotint"

Redburn : "mythological oil-paintings"

Moby-Dick : "less erroneous pictures"

Pierre : "a stranger's head by an unknown hand"

Clarel : "dwell on those etchings in the night"

The visual imagination : "wanderings after the picturesque".