Porcelain -- Collectors and collecting -- United States; Pottery -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
This print is seen in red, blue, or green on cups and saucers, or on
slightly scalloped plates. One of the latter is here shown. This
historic house is not now in existence. It was the intention of Governor
Hancock to present the handsome and substantial mansion, with its
elegant furniture, by bequest, to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to
be preserved as a memorial of great historical events, and to be used,
if necessary, by the Governor of the State during his residence in
Boston through his term of office. Hancock died without signing this
bequest, and his heirs then offered it to the Government for a modest
purchase sum. After many years of indecision, half-acceptance, and final
refusal on the part of the State, this fine old house was in 1863 pulled
down. In it Washington, Lafayette, and scores of other distinguished men
were visitors. There D’Estaing made his home in 1778, and with forty of
his officers dined with hospitable welcome every day for many weeks. It
was during this visit that the event occurred of which Madame Hancock
complained—that D’Estaing went to bed overcome with Hancock’s good wine,
and tore her best satin bedspread in pieces with his spurs, which he had
been too drunk to remove.
158. Brandywine Creek.
View of Gilpin’s Mills on Brandywine Creek. Dark blue. Mark on back of
scroll, eagle and E Pluribus Unum.
Brooklyn. View from.
See No. 208.
Bunker Hill Monument.
See No. 164.
159. Burlington. Richard Jordan’s House. J. S. & Co.
View of a commonplace frame house and outbuildings, and an inclosed
door-yard, with a broad-brimmed Quaker and a cow in foreground. Mark,
“Richard Jordan’s House. J. S. & Co.” This house was in Burlington, N.
J. The design is printed in pink or black on tea-services, and appears
to have been a popular one in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Cadmus.
See No. 74.
Cambridge. Harvard College.
See No. 179 _et seq._
Capitol at Washington.
See No. 259 _et seq._
160. Catskills. Pine Orchard House.
This is a pretty landscape in dark blue, with hotel in the distance, and
a man on horseback in the foreground. Mark on back, “Pine Orchard House,
Catskills.” It is doubtless made by E. Wood & Sons.
161. Catskills.
Print in rich dark blue of a mountain-scene with cliffs, peaks, and
pines, and a solitary figure. A confused shell border. Mark on the back,
of eagle with E Pluribus Unum, and an oblong stamp with the words, “In
the Catskills;” also a confused impressed stamp, probably E. Wood &
Sons.
162. Centennial.
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