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Identifier: internationalstu75newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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r. Peabody, one of Salems merchant princes, he came upon a wall paper factory in Europe where there was a complete sam-ple set. Then he remem-bered that in the old Forrester house, now used as the Salem Club, during the time of his grand-father's regime, there was a similar one on the wall. For sentimental reasons he purchased and had sent home this paper, which today is found in the upper hall of the mansion, now occupied by Mr. Ward Thoran. In the J. P. Lyman house at Ashby, Massa-chusetts, we find a most unusual paper. This is the Paris Monuments. It was imported in sections, each one of which was about eighteen inches wide, it requiring thirty strips to cover the entire room. It is as fresh in coloring as when first placed on the wall early in the nineteenth century. There is no repeat in the subject which commences in front of the Invalides, a view being shown of the Bourbon Palace. We pass on beyond the Tuileries and the Arc de Triomphe until we come finally upon Saint Stephens—a stately panorama.
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CUPID AND PSYCHE WALLPAPER IN THE ANDREW SAFFORD HOUSE, SALEM, MASS. The historic Pilgrimage to the Mosque of Omar on the Bosphorus is in Lieutenant Parker Kembles house in Marblehead, which was built about 1743 and was occupied by Colonel William Raymond Lee, of Revolutionary fame. Many of the reproductions of today are Chinese Chippendale in design, depicting groups of Oriental figures walking in a garden. They are fifty-two MARCH 1922 inceRnACioriA stroft© delicately framed by fantastic trellises, fromw hich are suspended urns filled with flowers and foliage. I he colors are red, green and brown upon a black background. In direct contrast to the gorgeous ChineseC hippendale is a very interesting scenic paper that is shown in the Colonel Livingston mansion at Irvington-on-the-Hudson. It portrays Man,

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