The front wall of our neighbor across the street, in the rather June-gloom light of this morning - and a post that's looking forward to tomorrow's class, where in addition to various other material about interiors (Deborah Cohen; The Spoils of Poynton, etc.), we'll be considering wallpaper and arsenic. William Morris's Trellis had arsenic in it until the firm stopped using it in 1880 ...
I'll be taking to class my copy of Lucinda Hawksley's wonderful Bitten by Witch Fever. Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home (2016), which in addition to short essays about arsenic has reproductions of 275 samples of C19th wallpaper designs that have all proven positive for arsenic.
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