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Wallpaper, Phelps-Hatheway House
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection, 2024.1.9, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copyright

Wallpaper, Phelps-Hatheway House

MakerMade by Jacquemart et Bérnard French, 1791 - 1840
MakerWood blocks made by Jean-Baptiste Réveillon French, 1725 - 1811
Date1791-1795
MediumWallpaper; colored inks probably block printed on paper
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionPiece of wallpaper panel from the Phelps-Hatheway House in Suffield, made by Jacquemart et Bérnard with wood blocks made by Jean-Baptiste Réveillon. The background is a light blue-gray. There is a vase with a floral arrangement under an arch at the top of the panel. Birds and swags of fabric are in the middle, and at the bottom there is a seated female figure showing or handing something to a cherub.
Object number2024.1.9
NotesIn 2023, CT Landmarks staff identified the wallpaper sample as belonging to Phelps-Hatheway House.
Subject Terms
    On View
    Not on view
    Phelps Hatheway House, Suffield, Connecticut. Gift of the Richard Welling Family, 2012.284.587…
    Phelps Hatheway House, Suffield
    Richard Welling
    after 1972
    Gift of Diane Albertine Norman, 2008.26.1 © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    Wallpaper Fragments from the Timothy Lester House, Griswold, Connecticut
    Unknown
    1750-1850
    Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren, 1985.51.2, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright
    Julia Beach Phelps
    Unknown
    about 1820
    Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren, 1985.51.1, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright
    Walter Phelps
    Unknown
    about 1820
    Gift of Mrs. Byard Williams, 1988.85.11, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known co…
    Guy Rowland Phelps
    Russell Cheney
    Gift of Jessie Norton-Lazenby, 2021.44.287, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright
    Bernard Downs
    Bernard I. Downs
    Dress
    Dress
    Unknown
    about 1875
    Dress
    Dress
    Mary James Crocker
    about 1883
    Waistcoat
    Waistcoat
    Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth
    about 1785
    Gift of Mrs. Byard Williams, 1988.133.422, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermin…
    Antoinette Phelps Cheney
    Horace Bushnell Cheney Sr.
    about 1914
    Gift of Mrs. Byard Williams, 1988.133.508, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermin…
    Mary Marquand and Antoinette Phelps Cheney
    Horace Bushnell Cheney Sr.
    about 1920
    Gift of Mrs. Byard Williams, 1988.133.540, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermin…
    House of Antoinette Phelps at 72 Washington Street, Hartford
    Horace Bushnell Cheney Sr.
    about 1913
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