| Description | When the Ross House on High Street, Ipswich, Massachusetts - built in 1750 - was torn down in 1933, the original of this remarkable paper was found behind a plastered wall. Many of these old wallpaper patterns were inspired by historical events. Here is one portraying the exultation felt by the French nation in Britain's loss of her American Colonies as a result of the American Revolution. It is believed to represent Washington, or perhaps one of the Colonists, trampling British Laws and chains underfoot. He is holding out to weeping Brittania a scroll inscribed, "4 July 1776," symbolic of the Declaration of Independence. With his left hand, he beckons America, personified by an American Indian, to come witness the humiliation of her oppressor. |
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