Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-01

structures, of (which there is an in finite variety, meats, bridges, streams of water, trees and foliage and a hundred other objects are in Q darker shade, some of them almost black; the outline and perspective being almost marvellous when the period is consid- tered in which this work must have been executed.
 Surely the art of printing wall paper to this degree of excellence did not flourish during the time when Captain Kellogg procured and brought with him to America these panels; they do not appear to the unskilled' eye to have been painted with the brush of the artist, and photography, does not afford a sufficient explana- ton of how they were brought into being, nor of how they have main- tained their brilliancy to this late day. Possibly some artist with a keen knowledge of history, may be forth coming who will give lucid and sat- isfactory explanation of this really mysterious as well as artistic work, and it is to be hoped that some such
 one may visit the Wade homestead, for the purpose of enlightening us, not only in the manner of placing ! these scenes upon paper and the methods by which they have been pre- served in their wonderful freshness but to give us as we'll the secret of the l tale, if tale there be, written in the
 allegory there depicted.
 Roman or Love Tale.
 One or more of the visitors have
 thought that there was a Roman tale l concealed therein, and love tale at /. that; not a fragment like Macauley's ! 1AA4 e,+1 writer's opinion, an unsciantific one
 as already avowed is not fh accord
 ance with this theory, and it is hoped that from the imperfect description
 herein contained, of each of the seven panels, and from an examination of the really excellent illustrations ac- companying this paper, a sound 5udg- ment of the true meaning of this ar
 tistic work may be formed by some one duly qualified for the task, and that he may give us all the benefit of This opinion.
 | Captain Kellogg seems to have brought these pictures from Italy, as the tradition runs, and one of the
 structure there depicted, bears ir 1 Anno Romae 8SS,"
 and in another place the Madonna an6
 Child are depicted, leading pious
 priest who has visited the room 2
 number of times for the purpose of in- specting and adnniring the drawings to inform his guide that he himself
 had any times visited this very tenn. pie, to which he gave a name that has been forgotten.
 We make no doubt that the rev. ererd father was sincere in his state. nent, affirming a personal knowledge of the structure and its exterior dec oraticns, but we: fear that possibly, il the view of an unskilled observer, hi.
 opinion may not have been more ac cl1rate than that of an old lady v;si tor, who thought that the statue nigh be that of lone of them heather god esses."
 It is probable that the structur named is intended to represent th4
 Arch of Titus erected by the famous son bearing that name, of the Elm peror Vespasian, who ascended tn, throne about A. D. 79 or S0 It ha been said of him, he being one of tn
 Flavian enperors, that the arch an, :, a. superb series of portrait busts, ranl as triumphs of impressionist sculpture ? and that the period of his reign IS re membered 'as the blossoming time o | the finest flowers of Roman art
 The writer has not pursued his in
 lquiry into Roman history in order t
 l determine whether or not A. D. ' = and Anno Romae S33," the inscriptio