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MASTERPIECES.
A limited and changing supply of these Engravings printed from copper and steel plates, varying in size from six inches or more, to two feet, and in price, from one to ten dollars, framed in carefully chosen early styles of the last century, are adapted to the decoration of writing tables, book shelves, mantels, and walls, in Libraries, Living Rooms, Dressing Rooms, and Bedrooms, etc.
For Sale by
Miss Laura M. Long, “FONTHILL” Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
OLD ENGRAVINGS.
THE FINISHING TOUCH.
A charm of bygone days, which modern photographs and process prints have lost, still clings to the once highly prized Engravings, after the Old Masters, made to delight, instruct, and refine, our ancestors, a hundred years ago.
Products of the human hand and brain, and full of the many meanings of History, Christianity and Romance, they set the final touch of taste and culture to the Modern House, where a returning interest in Colonial Architecture, decorates rooms with panelled walls, Open Fireplaces, Antique Mirrors and Old Furniture.
A handbill advertising the print business of Laura Long. Mercer's housekeeper. Based at Fonthill. Long sold prints to a wide clientele, which included HCM himself.
1929	April: in a codicil to his will, Mercer announced his desire for an Arboretum at Fonthill, to be managed by the Doylcs-town Nature Club.
May: HCM’s Bible tiles installed in Salem Reformed Church on East Court Street (now Salem United Church of Christ).
June: Ancient Carpenters’ Tools, HCM’s landmark book, published by the BCHS. June: Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on HCM. Citations read on this occasion hailed him as a “distinguished archaeologist and promoter of historical research . .. [and] contributor to human knowledge,” adding that “his greatest accomplishment is his success in recovering for the twentieth century the medieval conception of art in which the artist and the craftsman were one.”
December: finished manuscript of The Well of Monte Corbo, a stoiy based on art-historical detective work; set “two scenic panels [of tiles] in alcove of Fonthill.” These scenes, like his October drawing of 1920, depict farm life and ways in the past. Here, however, details from the drawing, along with added vignettes, are transformed into rainbow-hued, glossy tiles.
1930
1937
March 9: died at Fonthill, of Bright’s disease and myocarditis. Buried in the Chapman plot near the side of the Doylestown Presbyterian Church, East Court Street.
April: awarded the first Master Craftsman medal of the Arts & Crafts Guild of Philadelphia.
China at Work, by Rudolf Hommel, published. This studyofChinese technology was underwritten by Mercer and dedicated to his uncle. Colonel T. B. Lawrence (see 1921).
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A very simple inscription identifies the marble slab covering HCM’s grave in the churchyard of the Doylestown Presbyterian Church (above).
HENRY CHAPMAN MERCER: AN ANNOTATED CHRONOLOGY