Views in South and North America Civil War Era
Another Quality Print from
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| Type of print: |
Steel engraving - SCARCE Original vintage antique print
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| Year of printing: |
1865
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| Artist - Engraver
- Publisher: |
Foulquier - Outhwaite - Imp. Ch. Chardon aine, Paris..
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| Condition: |
Excellent - Very good - Good -
Fair. Small light brownish spots in blank margins; image area free of spots.
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Overall
dimensions of print:
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Including
blank margins: 11 x 15 1/2 inches. 1 inch = 2,54 cm.
Image dimensions: 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches.
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| Type of paper: |
Thick to Heavier, wove - Medium heavy - Slightly heavier - Thin. |
| Reverse side: |
Blank - With text or pictures |
| Notes: |
Green border around the print (bottom photo) is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed, it
is
not part of the print.
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Description
of the subject depicted in the print:
An
excerpt from the First Lady's (Mrs. Adams) impressions of the White
House:
Writing to her daughter in November,
1800, she says-" I arrived here
on Sunday last, and without meeting any accident worth noticing, except
losing ourselves when we left Baltimore, and going eight or nine miles
on the Frederic road, by which means we were obliged to go the other eight
through the woods, where we wandered two hours without finding a guide
or the path. Fortunately, a straggling black came up with us, and we engaged
him as a guide to extricate us out of our difficulty; but woods are all
you see, from Baltimore, until you reach the city, which is only
so in name. Here and there is a small cot, without a glass window, interspersed
among the forests, through which you travel miles without seeing any human
being." Her account of the President's official residence is equally entertaining:
"The house is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring about thirty servants
to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary
business of the house and stables - an establishment very well proportioned
to the President's salary ! The lighting the apartments, from the kitchen
to parlours and chambers, is a tax; and the fires we are obliged to keep,
to secure us from daily agues, is another cheering comfort! If they will
put me up some bells (there is not one bung through the whole house, and
promises are all you can obtain !), and let me have wood enough to keep
fires, I design to be pleased. I could content myself almost anywhere three
months; but, surrounded with forests, can you believe that wood is not
to be had-because people cannot be found to out and cart it. Briesler entered
into a contract with a man to supply him with wood-a small part (a few
cords) only has he been able to get. Most of that was expended to
dry the walls of the house before we came in, and yesterday the man told
him it was impossible to procure it to be out and carted. He has had recourse
to coals, but we cannot get grates made and set. We have come indeed into
a 'new country.' The house is made habitable, but there is not a single
apartment finished, and all withinside, except the plastering, has been
done since Briesler came. We have not the least fence, yard, or other convenience
without, and the groat unfinished audience-room I make a drying- room of,
to hang up the clothes in. The principal stairs are not up, and will not
be this winter. Six chambers are made comfortable; two are occupied by
the President and Mr. Shaw; two lower rooms, one for a common parlour,
and one for a levee room. Upstairs there is the oval room, which is designed
for the drawing-room, and has the crimson furniture in it. It is a very
handsome room now, but when completed it will be beautiful".
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Notes:
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--- findamerique27 findamhist
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