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A Bouquet from Victorian Paris - Series

 

It took a young 18 year old scientist trying to come up with a drug for malaria in 1856 to stumble upon our first stable synthetic dye for purples, pinks and blues. I applaud you William H. Perkin and promise to name a piece of art in your honor.

 

You became all the rage in Victorian Paris, so much so they renamed your purple......"mauveine" after the French word for the purple mallow flower. I of course, cannot resist all things mauveine, as you can plainly see in this series of work.

 

 

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Uploaded on March 12, 2011
Taken on February 28, 2011