These latter are large, reaching down to the floor have deep recesses and open on an Italian veranda. They are curtained within the recess, by a thick silver tissue adapted to the shape of the window, and hanging loosely in small volumes. Without the recess are curtains of an exceedingly rich crimson silk, fringed with a deep network of gold, and lined with silver tissue, which is the material of the exterior blind. The colours of the curtains and their fringe the tints of crimson and gold appear everywhere in profusion, and determine the character of the room. The walls are prepared with a glossy paper of a silver gray tint, spotted with small Arabesque devices of a fainter hue of the prevalent crimson.
Many paintings relieve the expanse of paper.
These are chiefly landscapes of an imaginative cast such as the fairy grottoes of Stanfield, or the lake of the Dismal Swamp of Chapman. There are, nevertheless, three or four female heads, of an ethereal beauty portraits in the manner of Sully. The tone of each picture is warm, but dark. Repose speaks in all. Not one is of small size.