Historic Wall-papers: From Their Inception to the Introduction of MachineryJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1924 - 458 páginas |
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advertised American ARMIDE artists background BATTERSEA blocks blue borders Boston Captain Cook Chasse Chinese papers CHINOISERIE Cietti complete paper Courtesy Cupid and Psyche decoration Delicourt DIRECTOIRE Dominotiers EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY England English engraved fashion Fêtes figures flock papers flowers France French green grisaille hall hangings HARRISON GRAY OTIS Huquier important invention Island JACKSON OF BATTERSEA Jacquemart et Bénard Jean Michel Jean Papillon John John Albion Andrew Joseph Dufour King LANDSCAPE PAPER London LOUIS XVI LOUIS XVI WALL-PAPER Lyons Mader Manufacturer and dealer Marblehead marbleized papers Mass medallions Metropolitan Museum original OVERDOORS painted paper PAPER IMITATING paper-hangings paper-stainers Papillon Paris patent patterns père Philadelphia PRINTED BY DUFOUR PRINTED IN COLOURS Printers Reveillon Salem scenic papers sepia silk small sheets STENCILLED Street strips in colour Successor tapestries THREE MUSKETEERS tontisses Upholsterer VENETIAN SCENES wall-paper walls William wood-blocks wood-engraving York
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Página 149 - Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all around, and Pope's ghost is just now skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight. I have about land enough to keep such a farm as Noah's, when he set up in the ark with a pair of each kind...
Página 95 - Intreat the favour of you to Get it Done for me to Come Early in the Spring, or as Soon as the nature of the Thing will admitt. The pattern is all was Left of a Room lately Come over here...
Página 138 - Art ; but let me be permitted to say that an Art recovered is little less than an Art invented. The Works of the former Artists remain indeed, but the Manner in which they were done, is entirely lost...
Página 149 - The room on the ground-floor nearest to you is a bedchamber, hung with yellow paper and prints, framed in a new manner, invented by Lord Cardigan; that is, with black and white borders printed.
Página 140 - Nor are there Lions leaping from Bough to Bough like Cats, Houses in the Air, Clouds and Sky upon the Ground...
Página 438 - Description des machines et procédés consignés dans les brevets d'invention, de perfectionnement et d'importation dont la durée est expirée et dans ceux dont la déchéance a été prononcée. Publiée par les ordres de M. le ministre de l'agriculture, du commerce et des travaux publics. Tome LXXXVI. Paris, 1857. 4».
Página 149 - French books that relate to her and her acquaintance. Out of this closet is the room where we always live, hung with a blue and white paper in stripes adorned with festoons, and a thousand plump chairs, couches, and luxurious settees covered with linen of the same pattern, and with a bow-window commanding the prospect, and gloomed with limes that shade half each window, already darkened with painted glass in chiaroscuro...
Página 41 - A new Art or invention for printing all sorts of paper of all sorts of figures and colours whatsoever, with several engines made of brass and such other like metals, with fire, without any paint or stain, which will be useful for hanging of rooms, and such like uses...
Página 96 - In the other part of these Hangings are Great Variety of Different Sorts of Birds, Peacocks, Macoys, Squirril, Monkys, Fruit and Flowers etc. " But a greater Variety in the above mentioned of Mr. Waldon's and Should be fond of having mine done by the Same hand if to be mett with. I design if this pleases me to have two Rooms more done for myself. I Think they are handsomer and Better than Painted hangings Done in Oyle, so I Beg your particular Care in procuring this for me and that the patterns may...
Página 31 - DURING the second half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth, the...