tapestry. So was dyed cloth. It is doubtful whether any 
paper hangings appeared in England before the Sixteenth 
Century, when they came by way of Spain and Holland 
from the far East. Even then, they. gained but slowly in 
popularity. The English were then, as they are now, a 
conservative people. 
By the middle of the Eighteenth Century, they were in 
extreme vogue, and tapestry was being used for covering 
furniture. This time brings us to the Lee mansion and its 
‘landscape paper just described. ‘The colonists had become 
prosperous and powerful, and the newest fashions of the 
mother-country were being eagerly sought for home decora- 
tion as well as for wearing apparel. 
These papers were made in blocks, instead of in long 
rolls. The shading was often done by hand, with the utmost 
care. Lovely tones of red, blue, and brown produced quiet 
color effects by the use of from fifteen to twenty sets of 
blocks. The French papers were even more highly finished 
than the English. 
One of the most exquisite of French papers is that which 
is shown in our illustrations from the old Knapp mansion in 
Newburyport, now owned and occupied as a Summer home 
by Mrs. G. W. Perry. This house was built at about the 
same time as the Lee mansion, by a Revolutionary hero. 
The paper of which I write is of a later date, belonging to 
the first quarter of the Nineteenth Century. Similar paper 
is found in the hall of Andrew Jackson’s residence, ‘The 
Hermitage,” near Nashville, Tennessee. It is produced 
in wonderful shades of soft green, red, peacock-blue, and 
white—all apparently undimmed by time. It represents 
scenes from Fenelon’s “Adventures of Telemachus,” and 
was a favorite novelty in Paris in 1820. All the examples 
of this paper found in this country must have been imported 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
An eighteenth century scenic wall-paper in the house of Colonel William R. Lee, Marblehead, Massachusetts 
from Paris at about that time, and were of artistic interest. 
While considering this subject, I could-scarcely refrain 
from saying that herein lies one charm of these old-time 
papers. There was real meaning in them... They expressed 
distinct ideas. A single theme was elaborated to decorate 
a whole room. ‘Thus there was a room hung with paper to 
illustrate the touching old mythological story of Cupid and 
Psyche. It adorned twelve different panels, and its manu- 
facture required the use of fifteen hundred sets of blocks. 
It is but natural that decorations such as this should have 
produced a stronger effect upon the mind than that which 
we receive from a sage-green cartridge-paper, however use- 
ful the latter may be in serving as a background. 
Hunting scenes imported from Antwerp were popular 
in the early days of the century lately past. An excel- 
lent example of these is still extant upon a wall in the Safford 
House in Salem. This house was built in 1818, and the 
hunting scene was one of the original papers, so that we 
can approximate very closely to the time to which it belongs. 
