A Deadly Decoration: New Tome Details Wallpaper and Arsenic
Bitten by Witch Fever by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
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A Deadly Decoration: New Tome Details Wallpaper and Arsenic
Image Credit: Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs, Paris/Courtesy Thames & Hudson German hand-colored engraving (1735–40) by Martin Engelbrecht of a dominotière, or maker of brocade and printed papers, wearing a dress of wallpaper samples.
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A Deadly Decoration: New Tome Details Wallpaper and Arsenic
Image Credit: Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C./Courtesy Thames & Hudson “The Age of Drugs” (1900) a cartoon by Louis Dalrymple published in the satirical American magazine Puck, shows a pharmacist dispensing drugs, including arsenic, to an eager crowd. An advertisement on the wall announces “The Kill ’em Quick Pharmacy,” while the saloon-keeper complains “I can’t begin to compete with this fellow.”
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A Deadly Decoration: New Tome Details Wallpaper and Arsenic
Image Credit: 2016 Crown Copyright/Courtesy Thames & Hudson Jules Desfossé, Paris, France, 1879.
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A Deadly Decoration: New Tome Details Wallpaper and Arsenic
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A Deadly Decoration: New Tome Details Wallpaper and Arsenic
Image Credit: Courtesy Thames & Hudson An advertisement for Arsenic soap.
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A Deadly Decoration: New Tome Details Wallpaper and Arsenic
Image Credit: Wellcome Library, London/Courtesy Thames & Hudson “This is my appearance after a good dose of ARSENIC taken medicinally.” In this British cartoon dating from the 1850s, the skeletal figure of Death appears from behind a screen to observe a patient suffering the adverse effects of arsenic treatment.
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A Deadly Decoration: New Tome Details Wallpaper and Arsenic
Image Credit: Wellcome Library, London/Courtesy Thames & Hudson “The Arsenic Waltz” (1862), by Punch cartoonist John Leech, depicts the high price of wearing arsenic-dyed fashion: literally, dancing with death.