Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 259

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(WHITE HOUSE.) Wallpaper fragment presumed to have been salvaged from the White House after it was burned in 1814. 18 x 22 inches, aquatint on paper; browning and soiling, several creases and short closed tears; backed with linen and mounted on corners in an attractive mat. Np, nd
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Depicts a rustic scene with trees and hay wagon. Provenance: Gift to Lizbeth Willis Sammis (ca.1863-1935) as a small girl; bequeathed to Mrs. Helen Walsh in 1937; sold at Swann Galleries auction 18 May 1989, lot 275, to the present owner.