Old Time Wall Papers Part 15

PLATE L.

Strolling Players.

Same paper, third view. The set of paper on the Cleasby house is said by descendants of the builder, Henry Oakes, to have cost $100, and $40 for its hanging. The similar set on the Badger homestead should have cost $50, had not the messenger lost the first payment sent, so that that sum had to be duplicated. This is on a smaller room than at the Cleasby house, requiring less paper. (p. 76-80)

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_PLATE LI_

_PLATE LII_

PLATE LI.

Rural Scene.

Paper on the parlor of Mr. Josiah Cloye at Ashland, Ma.s.sachusetts, and found also in several other places; colors neutral.

PLATE LII.

Rural Scene.

From another example of the same set found at Marblehead, Ma.s.sachusetts.

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_PLATE LIII_

_PLATE LIV_

PLATE LIII.

French Boulevard Scene.

Paper from the Forrester house at Salem, Ma.s.sachusetts, now used as a sanitarium for the insane. Since the photographs were taken the paper has been removed as it unduly excited the patients.

PLATE LIV.

French Boulevard Scene.

Same as above. Found also in a house at the sea-port town of Nantucket.

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_PLATE LV_

PLATE LV.

Gateway and Fountain.

French paper, imported before 1800, but never hung. A few rolls still survive, in the possession of Mr. George M. Whipple of Salem, Ma.s.sachusetts.

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_PLATE LVI_

PLATE LVI.

Scenes from Paris.

A very popular paper found in Federal Street, Salem, on the parlor of Mrs. Charles Sadler, daughter of Henry K. Oliver; in the Ezra Weston house at Duxbury, Ma.s.sachusetts, built in 1808; the Walker house at Rockville, Ma.s.sachusetts, and several other New England towns. The princ.i.p.al buildings of Paris are represented as lining the sh.o.r.e of the Seine. The inclusion of the Colonne Vendome shows it to have been designed since 1806; and as the horses on the Carousel arch were returned to Venice in 1814, the paper probably dates between those years. (p. 88)

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_PLATE LVII_

PLATE LVII.

Scenes from Paris.

Another side of room shown in Plate LVI. The paper is in pieces 16 by 21 inches. The colors are soft, with green, gray and brown predominating, but with some black, yellow, red, etc. The drawing is good.

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