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In the manner of a traditional Toile de Jouy this wallpaper tells the mythological story of Artemis and Actaeon with pencil rendered drawings collaged with scenic Hudson River engravings from an 1875 Art Journal. The Hudson River engravings depict scenes at Indian Brook Falls, vistas of Breakneck Ridge from Little Stony Point in Cold Spring and looking down-river to the Highlands and Bannerman Island from Newburgh.
Artemis is represented in two forms—both characters seen as bold huntress and protector. Contemporary references touch on the depiction of Actaeon (thinking specifically of a current leader boasting of ogling near-naked Miss Universe contestants and doing whatever he wants, including “grabbing ‘em by the pussy”) who in the story, while out hunting with his hounds, comes upon Artemis and her nymphs bathing in a sacred grove. Artemis changes him into a stag and his unbeknownst hounds, seeing just a deer, hunt him down and devour him.