Reading the Colours of Victorian Interiors: The Poetic Home Revisited
The invention of mauveine, the first coal-tar based aniline dye in London in 1856 marked a chromatic turning-point in the history of industrial Europe. Up until the 1870s Britain was in the vanguard of this ‘colour revolution’. Mauve was soon followed by a whole gamut of new, low-priced dyes which r...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2023-03-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cve/12794 |