Mary Magdalene (c. 1859) by Frederick Sandys has a background of fashionable emerald green Victorian wallpaper, which very likely would have contained arsenic. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary ...

Inside the Victorian house, Maass finds “a happy, hide-and-seek quality of surprise.” Stripped of its overgrowth of large-figured wallpaper, overstuffed chairs, marble-topped tables, potted ...

The vibrant green pigments that 19th century artist William Morris used in the wallpapers he created for the Victorian bourgeoisie may have been slowly poisoning his well-to-do customers -- and he ...

Victorian wall paintings have been uncovered during work to revamp a 19th Century property in Lewis. Experts have described the artwork found at Lews Castle in Stornoway as an unusual example of ...

WHEN local designer Amy Stubbs began renovating her Victorian house in York she didn't bargain on uncovering a genuine art mystery. As she peeled off the lining paper in her stairwell, instead of ...