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Death by Wallpaper: The Alluring Arsenic Colors that Poisoned the Victorian Age

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 31, 2016June 11, 2021

Lucinda Hawksley’s book Bitten by Witch Fever chronicles the rise of poisonous pigments in the 19th century through the burgeoning British wallpaper trade.

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The 19th-Century Lady Who Used Audubon’s Birds for Wallpaper

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 10, 2016December 15, 2022

In 1827, when Lady Isabella Hertford finally installed the hand-painted Chinese wallpaper the Prince of Wales had gifted her two decades earlier, she thought it didn’t have enough pizzazz for her drawing room at Temple Newsam in Leeds, England.

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More Than 6,000 Wallpaper Designs Digitized

by Laura C. Mallonee December 31, 2014April 25, 2017

Wallpaper has been the subject of exhibitions at institutions like New York’s International Print Center and Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery, and artists like Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst have even created their own designs.

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