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Here the colors are still remarkably brilliant, the dark 
green of the forest throwing into fine relief the red coats 
of the huntsmen and the graceful pose of prancing steed and 
yelping hound. 
Another Salem house shows a fine example of the series 
of related pictures. One entire room is papered with dif- 
ferent scenes from the adventures of Don Quixote. This 
paper lay in an attic, stored away in rolls, for forty years 
before it was hung. Hence it is in a perfect state of pre- 
servation. The coloring is in tones of brown upon a cream- 
white ground. I regret to state that all subjects chosen 
were neither so edifying nor so classical. I recall one French 
paper in sepia tones, which portrayed the scenes from the 
life history of a French gallant of the Eighteenth Century. 
Here might be seen a quarrel over dice, an ‘‘affair of honor,” 
a proposal of marriage, an elopement, and like interesting 
topics for representation. Each of these scenes was sur- 
rounded by rococo scrolls which seemed to form the con- 
necting link in the series of adventures. 
The Olympic Games made a beautiful and impressive 
subject for pictorial paper. Not many specimens of this 
are to be found, and this is unfortunate, as the choice of 
subject and its excution combine to make this paper, per- 
haps, most artistic of all. The coloring is in tones of brown. 
Any of the paper which exists was imported from France 
before the year 1800. I have seen but one room papered 
with this—a parlor in Keene, New Hampshire, but I have 
heard of one other similar series. 
Another very interesting subject along these lines be- 
longs twenty-five years later and depicts scenes from “The 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
Marine landscape wall-paper in the house of Mrs. G. Perry, Newburyport, Massachusetts 
April, 1912 
Lady of the Lake’”—vThe Chase, The Gathering of the 
Clans, and Blanche of Devon’s Prophecy. Highland scen- 
ery makes this landscape paper truly picturesque. Natural 
scenery was a favorite theme in the landscape papers of 
the early Nineteenth Century. One of these is a Venetian 
scene from the old Wheelright house in Newburyport, 
Mass. This fine old house, now used as an Old Ladies’ 
Home, was built nearly a hundred years ago by an ancestor 
of William Wheelright, who built the first railroad across 
the Andes. This paper seems still untouched by time. The 
chariot-race, found on another room in the same house is 
made ludicrous by the lack of harmony between the costumes 
of the human figures and their environment. It is as if 
a number of well-meaning Englishmen and Englishwomen 
had been transplanted to Rome and set back about eigh- 
teen hundred years. The Bay of Naples was a very favorite 
theme for repetition upon the walls, and surely, if any 
theme could bear indefinite repetition, it might well be a 
scene as lovely as that! 
Scenes from Paris were much in vogue during the times 
when France was in high favor, during Washington’s Ad- 
ministration, as well as that of John Adams. It went under 
a slight cloud soon after, as any student of history will 
remember ! 
“The Seasons”? makes a fine landscape paper, still to be 
seen on the walls of a library in Hanover, N. H. It is 
perhaps of a little later date than those in our illustrations, 
but would belong to the same period. ‘The four walls of 
the room represent the four successive seasons, pictured in 
neutral tint, with no sharp contrasts, but only a gentle 
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