Terms and conditions of use
Daisy wallpaper
1864
- Medium
- colour woodcut
- Measurements
- 115.0 × 54.0 cm
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Clark 1, Parry L 2
- Accession Number
- 1997.134
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Michael Whiteway, 1997
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Intrigued by arsenical findings, NGV conservators examined our own Morris wallpapers using x-ray fluorescence (XRF), a non-destructive form of analysis that aids the identification of metals, minerals and pigments. XRF uses a beam of radiation to force changes in a sample at an atomic level. These changes result in the release of secondary x-rays, the energies of which are characteristic of individual elements. The results are expressed as spectra. While arsenic was not located in the NGV sample, what was detected was the presence of lead, a leading domestic interior poison of the twentieth century.