Historic New England

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295288

Accession Number: 1973.101.8

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295289

Accession Number: 1973.101.9

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295290

Accession Number: 1973.101.10

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295291

Accession Number: 1973.101.11

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295292

Accession Number: 1973.101.12

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295293

Accession Number: 1973.101.13

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295294

Accession Number: 1973.101.14

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295295

Accession Number: 1973.101.15

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295296

Accession Number: 1973.101.16

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295297

Accession Number: 1973.101.17

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295298

Accession Number: 1973.101.18

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295299

Accession Number: 1973.101.19

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295300

Accession Number: 1973.101.20

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295301

Accession Number: 1973.101.21

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295302

Accession Number: 1973.101.22

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295303

Accession Number: 1973.101.23

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295304

Accession Number: 1973.101.24

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295305

Accession Number: 1973.101.25

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295306

Accession Number: 1973.101.26

"Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso"

French scenic wallpaper "Les Paysages de Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso". Twenty seven panels depict scenes from the story "Les Aventures de Télémaque," written by François Fénelon in 1699. Block printed in eighty-five colors with 2,027 woodblocks. Printed in four greens, two browns, two pinks, two...

Date: 1815-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295307

Accession Number: 1973.101.27

Pillow sham

Pillow sham, green cotton sateen. Rectangular sham covers the entire width of the bed and drapes down the sides.

Date: 1930-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile)

GUSN: 295310

Accession Number: 1942.4760.2

Wallpaper

Fragment of wallpaper with stylized moire pattern in squares separated by leaves. Block-printed in white, two shades of olive, and two green on cream or yellow ground.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 295317

Accession Number: 1972.110.1

Wallpaper

Transfer of a painted design once on plaster at the French House (see 1972.118.1) dating to circa 1800. Transfer appears on the reverse of wallpaper later installed on top of the painted plaster. The wallpaper itself is an early twentieth century floral with gemetric boarder in pink, gray and meta...

Date: 1910-1930

Maker: Possibly Graves, Noah (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 295353

Accession Number: 1972.118.2

"Décor Chinois" Wallpaper

Thirty-one fragments of chinoiserie-style wall panels. Naturalistic depiction of flowers, foliage, blooming branches and butterflies. The inspiration for these panels came from 18th-century, handpainted, Chinese wallpapers. Printed in over twenty colors on a white ground.

Date: 1856-1867

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295373

Accession Number: 1929.1854.2.1

"Décor Chinois" Wallpaper

Thirty-one fragments of chinoiserie-style wall panels. Naturalistic depiction of flowers, foliage, blooming branches and butterflies. The inspiration for these panels came from 18th-century, handpainted, Chinese wallpapers. Printed in over twenty colors on a white ground.

Date: 1856-1867

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 295374

Accession Number: 1929.1854.2.2

Textile Samples

Two triangular pieces of cotton textile with an overlapping bubble design in four different shades of blue. Selvage edge.

Date: 1967

Maker: Isola, Maija, 1927-2001 (Designer) Marimekko (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103368

Accession Number: 2000.491.15AB

Textile Sample

Cotton textile sample with red black and white geometric pattern.

Date: 1965-1970

Maker: Marimekko (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103369

Accession Number: 2000.491.16

Textile Sample

Cotton textile sample with a patchwork floral design in purple, gray, and light and dark blue. Selvage edge.

Date: 1960-1980

Maker: Isola, Maija, 1927-2001 (Designer) Marimekko (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103370

Accession Number: 2000.491.17

Textile sample

Cotton textile sample with a patchwork floral design in black and light and dark gray. Selvage edge.

Date: 1960-1980

Maker: Isola, Maija, 1927-2001 (Designer) Marimekko (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103371

Accession Number: 2000.491.18

Textile Sample

Cotton textile sample of red wavy stripes of different widths on a bright blue ground. Selvage edge.

Date: 1961

Maker: Isola, Maija, 1927-2001 (Designer) Marimekko (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103372

Accession Number: 2000.491.19

Carpet Fragment

Wool carpet fragment, Wilton weave in diagonal lines of dark red dots on a rose ground.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103373

Accession Number: 2005.2.24

Wallpaper Printing Cylinder

Metal wallpaper printing cylinder with floral design.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103375

Accession Number: 2005.28.2

Wallpaper Printing Cylinder

Wood and metal wallpaper printing cylinder featuring a scrolling foliate design

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103376

Accession Number: 2005.29.1

Wallpaper Printing Cylinder

Wood and metal wallpaper machine printing cylinder with scrolling floral pattern.

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: wood (plant material), metal

GUSN: 103377

Accession Number: 2005.29.2

Wallpaper Printing Cylinder

Wood and metal printing cylinder with two bands of scrolling foliate.

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103378

Accession Number: 2005.29.3

Wallpaper Printing Cylinder

Wood and metal wallpaper printing cylinder featuring a floral pattern with a trellis.

Date: 1920-1930

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103379

Accession Number: 2005.29.4

Wallpaper Wood Block

Wallpaper wood block with two stylized male figures.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103380

Accession Number: 2005.29.5

Wallpaper Wood Block

Wallpaper wood block with a scrolling floral and swag design.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: Thomas Strahan, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103381

Accession Number: 2005.29.6

Wallpaper

Tapestry wallpaper fragment depicting a pastoral scene of a woman on a mule and a man plowing a field, various greens and beige on tan ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), printing ink

GUSN: 103382

Accession Number: 2005.30

Wallpaper Moldings Sample Sheet

Wallpaper moldings sample sheet featuring various styles and colors of wallpaper molding, most with gilt decoration.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: Potter Paper Mills (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103383

Accession Number: 2004.45AB

Double Bed

Bed, double size, having horizontally rectangular headboard, large continuous-bead molding of scrolls details the serpentine outline, and top center cartouche of foliate carving. Beneath center book-match burl graining. Lower footboard repeats the headboard detail, counterpart base molding, with fre...

Date: 1936-1937

Maker: Cole, Louis (Maker) National Furniture Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103384

Accession Number: 2007.17.1A-D

Gentleman's Dresser

Chest of drawers, vertically rectangular, having an overhang rectangular top, serpentine-shaped front and ovolo corners fitted with upper two horizontal short drawers, above four graduated long drawers, all with case continuous-bead molding surrounds having cast-metal pulls, scrolls and foliate deta...

Date: 1936-1937

Maker: Cole, Louis (Maker) National Furniture Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103385

Accession Number: 2007.17.2

Commode

Commode, having overhang serpentine-shaped top, ovolo corners, with molded edge. Two horizontal short drawers beneath, fronts with inner bead molding and continuous-bead molding surrounds, each with matching cast-metal foliate pulls. Beneath, two deep long drawers, serpentine fronts, continuous-bead...

Date: 1936-1937

Maker: Cole, Louis (Maker) National Furniture Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103386

Accession Number: 2007.17.3

Dressing Table

Dressing table, serpentine shaped with edge thumb-molding having concave center knee space, applied continuous-bead molding outline with center base carved scallop shell with scroll surrounds. Flanking banks of three graduated short drawers on each side, top serpentine drawers with bead molding surr...

Date: 1936-1937

Maker: Cole, Louis (Maker) National Furniture Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103387

Accession Number: 2007.17.4

Upholstered Bench with Arms

Bench with arms having low oval upholstered back, ivory ground brocade with pastel flowers and leafage show cover; applied carved C-scroll cresting. Curved dish-molded open arms above shaped molded arm supports and D-shaped upholstered slip-seat. Front seat rail with shaped lower edge; shaped front ...

Date: 1936-1937

Maker: Cole, Louis (Maker) National Furniture Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103388

Accession Number: 2007.17.5

Upholstered Chair

Boudoir chair, with boxed oval upholstered back, counterpart upholstery show cover, having D-shaped upholstered seat above straight front seat rail, scallop shaping lower edge. Cabriole legs with leafage carved French feet.

Date: 1936-1937

Maker: Cole, Louis (Maker) National Furniture Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103389

Accession Number: 2007.17.6

Pair of Nightstands

Pair of nightstands, each with overhang circular top, multiple continuous-bead edge molding above shaped aprons with machined rosettes. Four high slender cabriole legs, apron roundels above high leg low relief leafage carving and French scroll above rounded block feet.

Date: 1936-1937

Maker: Cole, Louis (Maker) National Furniture Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103390

Accession Number: 2007.17.7.1-2

Pair of Wall Mirrors

Pair of wall mirrors, vertically oval in shape, each having molded frame, bead-molding inner edge, and pierced foliate scrollwork cresting, center swags and ruffled shell detail; counterpart reduced pierced and carved base detail.

Date: 1936-1937

Maker: Cole, Louis (Maker) National Furniture Company (Manufacturer)

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103391

Accession Number: 2007.17.8.1-2

Pair of Modillions Mounted on Boards

Pair of wood modillions having carved scrolled acanthus leaves, painted white, both mounted to rectangular boards

Date: 1795

Maker: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844 (Architect)

GUSN: 103392

Accession Number: 2007.19.1-2

Hope Chest

Rectangular cedar hope chest with veneered surface, serpentine stepped molding at front, single drawer at bottom front, and four bracket feet. Lid hinged at back, single shelf with three sections lined with green felt under lid.

Date: 1942

Maker: The Lane Company, Inc. (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 103393

Accession Number: 2007.22.1

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