Layers of very old wallpaper; full description below.

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Layers of wallpaper, some probably 150 years old, on the wall of a six-inch-deep closet in a house in Massachusetts. I'm guessing - though I'm not certain - that the greenish-brownish paper is colored with Scheele's Green, a pigment popular in the late 19th century whose presence in the wallpaper in his home-in-exile on Elba is suspected to have accelerated the demise of Napoleon Bonaparte through its high arsenic content. Camera: Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi.

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Size: 3840px × 5120px
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Photo credit: © Ian Darson Photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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