Old Time Wall Papers Part 13

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Pizarro in Peru.

Remains of Pizarro paper in the Ezra Weston house now used for the famous Powder Point School for Boys, at Duxbury, Ma.s.sachusetts.

Formerly on sitting-room but now preserved in a small upper room; stained and dim. It was brought from Paris by Captain Gershom Bradford, and is supposed to depict scenes in Pizarro's invasion of Peru in 1531. The same figures are shown in successive scenes, more or less distinct though running into each other. (p. 97)

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Pizarro in Peru.

Another corner of same room. Both the paper and photograph are difficult to reproduce.

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Tropical Scenes.

Paper from the Ham House at Peabody, Ma.s.sachusetts, now occupied by Dr. Worcester. These scenes are quite similar to those of the Pizarro paper, and may have been the work of the same designer.

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Tropical Scenes.

Ham house paper. Another side of room.

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On the Bosporus.

From a house at Montpelier, Vermont, in which it was hung in 1825, in honor of Lafayette who was entertained there. The Mosque of Santa Sophia and other buildings of Constantinople are seen in the background.

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On the Bosporus.

Opposite side of same room. Fis.h.i.+ng from caiques on the Golden Horn before Stamboul.

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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)

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PLATE XLI.

Oriental Scenes.

Continuation of same paper; apparently a religious procession.