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Author: sarahbguestperry
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
From the auctioneer’s description on this lot’s website page:
“Panoramic wallpaper: Already at the end of the 18th century, panoramic wallpaper was ready to replace tapestries and silk panels, which had become too expensive for bourgeois and aristocratic homes. The motifs showing the neoclassical style, which was in vogue at the time, experienced an unprecedented growth and many workshops appeared, both in Paris and in the provinces. Joseph Dufour’s workshop was one of the most famous of them and compete with the other wallpaper companig called Zuber. Joseph Dufour was born in Tramayes (today in Saône-et-Loire) in 1754, he first settled in Macon, where his factory was founded in 1797, before settling in Paris ten years later. The designers Laffitte and Xavier Mader brought their talent to the company and gained traction and popularity in all parts of society. Dufour then began his production of panoramic papers, often depicting colorful classical, oriental or even very exotic landscapes from the shores of the Bosphorus to the islands of the South Sea or as we discover at this sale architectural landscapes with animated mythological scenes, showing young girls in Greco-Roman tunics and uniformed soldiers on horseback, while elsewhere they indulge in the joys of the swing.”
Number 17. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.htmlNumbers 13 and 21. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.htmlNumber 53. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.htmlNumbers 67 and 68. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.htmlNumbers 71 and 72. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.htmlNumbers 77, 78, 79 and 80. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.htmlNumbers 91 and 92. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.htmlNumbers 93 and 94. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.htmlNumbers 59 and 60. Sample sheet from the Mosaikfabrik of Villeroy und Boch, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany. 1886. C Naumann, Frankfort, printer. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.geschichte-der-fliese.de/Musterbl_Wandplatten.html
A benchmark in San Francisco history, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition reflected the ascendance of the United States to the world stage and highlighted San Francisco’s grandeur. It drew nearly nineteen million visitors. The exhibition was intended to be temporary—the buildings being made of wood, plaster, and burlap to make them easy to demolish. The only portion to survive is the Palace of Fine Arts, which was rebuilt in the ‘60s with more permanent materials.
Escalier, Hôtel du Figaro, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Jean Arnould Léveil, artist. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63484/Vestibule, Hôtel du Figaro, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Jean Arnould Léveil, artist. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/61332/Salle de Bains, Hôtel Boulevard Exelmans, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Jean Arnould Léveil, artist. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63483/Vestibules, Hôtel du Figaro, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Jean Arnould Léveil, artist. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63509/Vestibule, Hôtel de Menier, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63522Grand Salon, hôtel, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63521/Vestibule, Hôtel Boulevard Exelmans, Paris. Plate from L’architecture privée au XIXme siècle (Troisième Série). Published in France in 1877. Chromolithograph. César Denis Daly, editor. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/63494/
Cephalopodes: Eledon Aldrovandi:Delle Chiaje, Verany delin. ex vero et Chromolithograph in Lit Armanino. (Drawn from life by Verany and Chromolithograph in Lit. Armanino. Image 157. Plate 2 of Mollusques méditeranéens; observés, décrits, figurés, et chromolithographiés d’après le vivant.1852. Chromolithograph. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104831#page/157/mode/1upCephalopodes: Octopus tetracirrhus : Delle Chiaje (left, 1 and 2) and Octopus Alderii”: Verany (right, 3). Image 169. Plate 7. Mollusques méditeranéens; observés, décrits, figurés, et chromolithographiés d’après le vivant.1852. Chromolithograph. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104831#page/169/mode/1upCephalopodes: Octopus macropus: Risso.Verany delin. ex vero et Chromolithograph in Lit Armanino. (Drawn from life by Verany and Chromolithograph in Lit. Armanino. Image 175. Plate 10 of Mollusques méditeranéens; observés, décrits, figurés, et chromolithographiés d’après le vivant.1852. Chromolithograph. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104831#page/174/mode/1up
tCephalopodes: Histioteuthis; Bonelliana. Ferus. Image 196. Plate 19. Mollusques méditeranéens; observés, décrits, figurés, et chromolithographiés d’après le vivant.1852. Chromolithograph. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104831#page/196/mode/1up
Briarcliff College was a women’s college that was located in the Briarcliff Manor resort hotel in New York’s Hudson Valley. These images are much fun especially as the theatre was doing double duty as the school gymnasium as you can see the basketball hoop up over the stage in the first photograph.