Opposite side of same room. Fishing from caiques on the Golden Horn before Stamboul. [Illustration] [Illustration] _PLATE XL_ PLATE XL. Oriental Scenes. Paper still on the walls of the home of Miss Janet A. Lathrop, at Stockport, New York. It was put on the walls in 1820 by the sea captain who built the house, and in 1904 was cleaned and restored by the present owner. No other example of this paper in America has been heard of, except in an old house at Albany in which the mother of Miss Lathrop was born. In the "Chinese room" of a hunting lodge belonging to the King of Saxony, at Moritzburg, near Dresden, is a similar paper or tapestry from which this may have been copied. It is printed in grays which have become brown with age, from engraved blocks, and finished by hand. This is a rare example of the use of rice paper for a wall covering. (p. 55) [Illustration] _PLATE XLI_ PLATE XLI. Oriental Scenes. Continuation of same paper; apparently a religious procession. [Illustration] _PLATE XLII_ PLATE XLII. Oriental Scenes. Another section of the Lathrop house paper. [Illustration] _PLATE XLIII_ PLATE XLIII. Oriental Scenes. End of room containing three preceding scenes. [Illustration] _PLATE XLIV_ PLATE XLIV. Early Nineteenth Century Scenic Paper. Side wall of parlor of Mrs. E. C. Cowles at Deerfield, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1738 by Ebenezer Hinsdale, and was re-modelled and re-decorated about the beginning of the nineteenth century. Still in good state of preservation. The colors are neutral. [Illustration] _PLATE XLV_ PLATE XLV. Parlor of Mrs. Cowles' house, end of room. [Illustration] _PLATE XLVI_ _PLATE XLVII_ PLATE XLVI. Another example of the same paper as that on the Cowles house (Plates XLIV and XLV). This paper was imported from England and hung in 1805, in a modest house at Warner, New Hampshire,--such a house as seldom indulged in such expensive papers. It is still on the walls, though faded. PLATE XLVII. At Windsor, Vermont, two more examples of this paper are still to be seen. One is on the house now occupied by the Sabin family. This was built about 1810 by the Honorable Edward R. Campbell, and the paper was hung when the house was new. (p. 52) [Illustration] [Illustration] _PLATE XLVIII_ _PLATE XLIX_ PLATE XLVIII. Harbor Scene.