First Floor Pictures
pictures courtesy of Papa, Mark Twain, and The Mark Twain
House and Museum
"Along
one side of the library, in the Hartford home, the bookshelves joined
the mantlepiece--in fact, there were
shelves on both sides of the mantlepiece. On these shelves on on the
mantlepiece stood
various adornments. At
one end of the procession was a framed oil painting of a cat's head; at
the other end was the head of a
beautiful
young girl, life size,--called Emmeline, because she looked just about
like that--an impressionistic watercolor [this
painting was
purchased after Twain wrote The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn].
Between the one picture and
the other there were twelve or fifteen of
the bric-a-brac things...also an oil painting by Elihu Vedder, 'The
Young
Medusa'. Every now and then the children required me
to construct a romance--always impromptu--not a moment's
preparation permitted--and into that romance I had to get the
bric-a-brac and the three pictures. I had to start always
with the cat and finish with Emmeline." Autobiography, 222
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