Old Time Wall Papers: An Account of the Pictorial Papers on Our Forefathers' Walls with a Study of the Historical Development of Wall Paper Making and DecorationSanborn, Kate
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Old Time Wall Papers: An Account of the Pictorial Papers on Our Forefathers' Walls with a Study of the Historical Development of Wall Paper Making and Decoration
Sanborn, Kate
Interior decoration -- History; Wallpaper
Cupid meantime has dissuaded Calypso from her wrath and incited the
nymphs to burn the boat that is waiting to bear the visitors away.
Mentor, perceiving that Telemachus is secretly glad of this, and
fearing the effect of his passion for Eucharis, throws the youth
from the cliff into the water, leaps in after him, and swims with
him to a ship that lies at anchor beyond the treacherous shoals.
[Illustration]
_PLATE LXX_
PLATE LXX.
Scottish Scenes.
The room on which the Adventures of Telemachus are pictured having
proved too large for the set of scenes, the remaining corner is
filled out with what appear to be Scottish scenes, possibly
illustrations for Scott. Harmony in coloring was apparently of more
importance than harmony in subject.
[Illustration]
_PLATE LXXI_
_PLATE LXXII_
PLATE LXXI.
The Olympic Games.
This famous paper, now owned by Mrs. Franklin R. Webber 2d of
Boston, was made in France and imported in 1800 or earlier, but
never hung. Each roll is made up of squares invisibly joined, and
the thirty pieces combine to form a continuous panorama. The
coloring is brown. The paper was probably printed by hand from
engraved blocks, and the shading of faces, etc., added by hand. The
most artistic pictorial paper known. (p. 52-54)
PLATE LXXII.
The Olympic Games.
A tribute to Homer.
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
_PLATE LXXIII_
_PLATE LXXIV_
PLATE LXXIII.
The Olympic Games.
The shrine of Vesta.
PLATE LXXIV.
The Olympic Games.
Worshipping Athene in the Court of the Erechtheum.
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
_PLATE LXXV_
_PLATE LXXVI_
PLATE LXXV.
The Olympic Games.
Oblation to Bacchus.
PLATE LXXVI.
The Olympic Games.
Oblation to Bacchus, and procession before the Parthenon. From the
Perry house at Keene, N. H., on whose parlor walls is preserved the
only other known example of the paper just described. (p. 50)
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
_PLATE LXXVII_
PLATE LXXVII.
The Lady of the Lake.
This series of scenes in neutral colors is photographed from the
parlor of the Rev. Pelham Williams, at Greenbush, Mass., whose
house is one of three on which it still hangs in good condition.
The other examples are the Hayward house at Wayland, Mass., and the
Alexander Ladd house, now owned by Mrs. Charles Wentworth, at
Portsmouth, N. H.
CANTO I. THE CHASE.
III.
Yelled on the view the opening pack--
Rock, glen, and cavern paid them back;
To many a mingled sound at once
The awakened mountain gave response.
An hundred dogs bayed deep and strong,
Clattered a hundred steeds along,
Their peal the merry horns rang out,
An hundred voices joined the shout;
With bark, and whoop, and wild halloo,
No rest Benvoirlich's echoes knew.
[Illustration]
_PLATE LXXVIII_
PLATE LXXVIII.
The Lady of the Lake.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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