Arsenic Waltz | 1862 Punch Cartoon Satirizing Arsenic Green DyesWhat with the huge popularity of the book Bitten by Witch Fever & the Poison Book Project helmed by the Winterthur Library , Im sure many of you are familiar with the disasters caused by arsenic dyes in the Victorian era. Many of you have probably even seen this illustration before! Its from an 1862 issue of Punch and depicts two skeletons in extravagant evening dress. The illustration is titled The Arsenic Waltz, referring to the health issues caused

made to look like ivory

Red cloth coverboards with gilt decorations

1870-80) just over an inch long with its original glass still inside

It’s rather rare to find a consolation title in this format but they are quite poignant

Some fading to the black dye from age

Early 20th century hardcore real photo postcard

dated 1860

which is great

mid-Victorian child-size parasol with a black silk canopy

Early 19th century devotional painting of Saint Phillip

The textblock is clean & intact

turn of the century antique celluloid on tin photo of a resplendently dressed boy celebrating his first communion