Exotic up your winter no matter how many sleet storms there are. Wallpaper panels of “Telemachus on the Island of Calypso” by the firm of Joseph Dufour et Cie which was founded in 1797. Printed in Paris, France. All of these being part of the same lot up for bid with Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers who are part of the Bonhams network.

Telemachus on the Island of Calypso. One of a set of four that make up two pairs of wallpapers with block-printed colorful panoramic views composed on joined sheets of wallpaper later mounted on canvas that have architectural landscapes animated by mythological character scenes. 1815-1820. French. Joseph Dufour et Cie, maker. Image © Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, part of the Bonhams network. Wallpaper itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bruun-rasmussen.dk/m/lots/A3F446EDA292
Telemachus on the Island of Calypso. One of a set of four that make up two pairs of wallpapers with block-printed colorful panoramic views composed on joined sheets of wallpaper later mounted on canvas that have architectural landscapes animated by mythological character scenes. 1815-1820. French. Joseph Dufour et Cie, maker. Image © Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, part of the Bonhams network. Wallpaper itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bruun-rasmussen.dk/m/lots/A3F446EDA292
Telemachus on the Island of Calypso. One of a set of four that make up two pairs of wallpapers with block-printed colorful panoramic views composed on joined sheets of wallpaper later mounted on canvas that have architectural landscapes animated by mythological character scenes. 1815-1820. French. Joseph Dufour et Cie, maker. Image © Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, part of the Bonhams network. Wallpaper itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bruun-rasmussen.dk/m/lots/A3F446EDA292
Telemachus on the Island of Calypso. One of a set of four that make up two pairs of wallpapers with block-printed colorful panoramic views composed on joined sheets of wallpaper later mounted on canvas that have architectural landscapes animated by mythological character scenes. 1815-1820. French. Joseph Dufour et Cie, maker. Image © Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, part of the Bonhams network. Wallpaper itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bruun-rasmussen.dk/m/lots/A3F446EDA292

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.”

Dreaming the summer way with American artist Thomas Wilmer Dewing. Living from 1851 to 1938, he studied at the  Académie Julian in Paris.

Summer. ca. 1890. American. Oil on canvas. Thomas Wilmer Dewing, painter (1851-1938). Collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 80 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Dewing_%E2%80%93_Summer.jpg
Lady in Yellow. 1888. American. Thomas Wilmer Dewing, painter (1851-1938). Collections of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 80 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Wilmer_Dewing_-Lady_in_YellowP1w3-_Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum.jpg
The White Birch. ca. 1896-1900. American. Thomas Wilmer Dewing, painter (1851-1938).via https://corvusfugit.com/2017/07/08/1891-the-song/thomas-wilmer-dewing-the-white-birich-c-1896-1900/
The Recitation. 1891-1892. American. Thomas Wilmer Dewing, painter (1851-1938).via https://corvusfugit.com/2017/07/08/1891-the-song/thomas-wilmer-dewing-the-recitation-1891-2/

Pretty up that vestibule or conservatory floor. Sample sheets from the mosaic factory of Villeroy and Boch, Mettlach, Germany. 1886. Collections of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart. Part 1, wall panels.

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.html
Numbers 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.html
Number 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.html
Numbers 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.html
Numbers 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.html
Numbers 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.html
Numbers 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.html
Numbers 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.html
Numbers 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

Off to see the sights. Imagery of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition which was held in San Francisco, California from February to December of 1915.

Tower of Jewels and Fountain of Energy. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Festival Hall and South Gardens. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Doorway Varied Industries Building. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
The End of the Trail. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Palace of Horticulture. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Avenue of Palms and Tower of Jewels).Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Educational Building. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Court of the Four Seasons. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Fountain of Energy. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
California Building. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Sectional view of South Gardens, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album
Avenue of Palms with Liberal Arts Building and Italian Tower. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California. February to December, 1915. Taken from an extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco that was probably kept by a visitor to the Exposition and was possibly compiled by one Betty Zamloch. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5711/betty-zamloch-compiler/panama-pacific-international-exposition-photo-album

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.

Hand-fans in fun colors just in time for late spring and early summer. From Fan d’Eventail, Paris.

A small brisé fan in bakelite evoking the Futurism movement by its composition and its colors. ca. 1920-1930. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3530-futurism-fan-circa-1920-30.html

Fan with a wallpaper leaf in the taste of the Symbolists. 20th c. Framed and under glass. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fan-leafs/3535-symbolist-hill-fan-leaf-xxth-century.html
Circus fan with a paper leaf painted with a clown and a little monkey. Wooden sticks and guards, the throat partially painted, the master guard applied with a blue tinted mother-of-pearl. 20th c. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3520-the-colors-of-the-circus-20th-century-fan.html
Small hand-fan, the leaf in fuchsia pink fabric painted with an elegant couple ready to dance, their heads in painted Bakelite with Galalith sticks and guards in imitation of tortoiseshell. Monogrammed on the bottom left. ca. 1920s-1930s. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3529-the-marquis-at-the-party-art-deco-fan.html

Small “Sultane” hand-fan, the blue silk leaf applied with a white lace border. “Sultane” sticks and guards made of engraved and grilled bone. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3534-sultane-blue-fan-circa-1870-1900.html

Hotel décor from the old days in Paris. Doesn’t look that way anymore but you can always dream of Sarah Bernhardt stopping by for tea. Collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Newfields).

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/63522
Grand 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/

Imagery from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Relatives of the Flying Wallendas. Taken from the website of rare book dealer James Arsenault.

Wallenda Company: Clowns et parodistes.1960-1973. German. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
Die Wallendas.1960-1973. German. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
1960-1973. German. Jack J. Frisco, photographer. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
Die Chesner’s Denmark. 1960-1973. German. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
Die Hassani’s. 1960-1973. German. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
Wallendas Cowboy Film – Parodi. 1960-1973. German. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
María Montero-Muñoz – España. 1960-1973. German. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
Big cat act. 1960-1973. German. Barnet Saidman, photographers. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
The Flying Gaonas – Tom Pack’s Show. 1960-1973. German. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
Trapeze. 1960-1973. German. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
A. Schweizer presents the INDIAN JERONIMO. 1960-1973. German. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
MARY MATONEL – CONTORSION IN MODERN STYLE AND RHYME. 1960-1973. German. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
Circus Ringling Brothers, New York. 1960-1973. German. Adanos, photographers. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
Willy Meyer Cirque Amar, France. 1960-1973. German. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album
Paquin Sidonie and Rita Renoir; Theatre Caumartin, Paris. 1960-1973. German. Taken from a photograph album kept by Beppo and Mary Wallenda between 1960 and 1973 chronicling thirteen years of their circus tours throughout Europe and the United States. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5692/beppo-compilers-mary-wallenda/beppo-wallenda-circus-tour-photo-album

Imagery of sea creatures from Jean Baptiste Vérany’s 1851 work “Mollusques méditeranéens; observés, décrits, figurés, et chromolithographiés d’après le vivant”. Arted up but otherwise much the same as they are in 2023.

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/1up
Cephalopodes: 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/1up
Cephalopodes: 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

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Cephalopodes: 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

Interior spaces in North Frisia with painter Karl Ludwig Jessen. (1833-1917). Born in Schleswig-Holstein in what is now Germany, he studied art in Copenhagen. A member of the Naturalism school.

Die blaue Stube. 1912. Schleswig-Holstein/Frisian. Signed and dated on the lower right. Karl Ludwig Jessen, painter (1833-1917). Image source: NordseeMuseum Husum, Husum. Artwork itself in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1912_Jessen_Die_blaue_Stube_anagoria.JPG
Interior of a Friesian house with two cats. 1907. Schleswig-Holstein/Frisian. Karl Ludwig Jessen, painter (1833-1917). Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://oldpaintings.tumblr.com/post/668481936187129856/interior-of-a-friesian-house-with-two-cats-1907
The brown parlor. 1874. Schleswig-Holstein/Frisian. Karl Ludwig Jessen, painter (1833-1917). Signed and dated on the lower left. Collections of the Museumsberg Flensburg. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/CarlLudwigJessen/en/PartCLJessen0020.html
Rotes Zimmer bei Paul Moritzen. 1869. Schleswig-Holstein/Frisian. Karl Ludwig Jessen, painter (1833-1917). Signed and dated on the lower left. Collections of the Museumsberg Flensburg. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jessen_Carl_Ludwig_Rotes_Zimmer_Museumsberg_Flensburg_Heinrich-Sauermann-Haus.JPG

Photographs of college students acting in plays from a photograph album kept by a student at Briarcliff College or perhaps the drama professor.

Students at the long closed Briarcliff College for Women in Briarcliff Manor, New York acting in an unknown play portraying, from left to right, an American Indian girl wrapped in a blanket with feathers in her hair, a performer wearing boots, a skirt and her middy blouse from gym class, a performer wrapped in an animal print blanket wearing sign labeled “Wild Cat” and a cowboy astride a horse over on the right. The sign propped up in front of the stage reading “Saint Louis as easternmost as you can get”. From a photograph album kept by an unknown person with a connection to the school. ca. 1915. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/3783/briarcliff-college-photo-album
Students at the long closed Briarcliff College for Women in Briarcliff Manor, New York in blackface singing in a minstrel show. From a photograph album kept by an unknown person with a connection to the school. ca. 1915. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/3783/briarcliff-college-photo-album
What appears to be a production of “She Stoops to Conquer,” by Oliver Goldsmith being performed by students at the long closed Briarcliff College for Women in Briarcliff Manor, New York. From a photograph album kept by an unknown person with a connection to the school. ca. 1915. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/3783/briarcliff-college-photo-album
Students at the long closed Briarcliff College for Women in Briarcliff Manor, New York acting in an unknown play dressed in costume as farmers and their wives with two rakes for props along with three buckets and tied up vegetation behind them dressing the set along with a backdrop with painted trees. From a photograph album kept by an unknown person with a connection to the school. ca. 1915. American. Image © 2023 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/3783/briarcliff-college-photo-album

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.