Portrait of Chikf Justice and Mrs. Oliver Ellsworth 



by Ralph Earl, 1792 



(Courtesy oj W'adsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.) 



Figure i . — The floor shown in this room of a Connecticut house is completely covered with a bold design of 

 large stripes and medallions in shades of black, red, orange, and white. The Ellsworths are seated in the 

 library of their house which by artistic license is seen through the open window to be a white mansion 

 with a red roof. 



