Ceruse
Lead white, Venetian ceruse, belladonna eye drops and arsenic complexion wafers, sold as beauty and documented as poison.
Part of Beauty Standards
10 moments in this segment.
- - Of cerusse and the effects thereof Gio Paulo Lomazzo. Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo about Venetian ceruse, from book A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge buildinge, Oxford 1598, translated by Richard Haydock.
- - Aujourdhuy d'une façon, demain de l'autre. Satire on fashion; a figure, half male and half female, seated on a horse, carrying a clock face with the hours of the day in each hand.
- - Bust of a women with face patches. Ceramic bust of a women with face patches, made Staffordshire, England, about 1760 in salt-glazed stoneware. Part of the Henry Willett's Collection of Popular Pottery exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2024.
- - print, advertisement, skit note. Advertisement for Gowlands skin lotion made by Robert Dickinson in the form of a mock banknote.
- - Advertentie voor druivenborstsiroop uit 1872. A 1872 newspaper ad in the Netherlands for a syrup prepared from grapejuice, sold as a quack cure against coughing made by W.H. Zickenheimer in Mainz (Germany).
- - Filter used to produce radioactive water, England,. These types of drinks were often known as elixirs. This glass filter, marked with the maker #146;s name, Radium Ltd, was infused with radioactive matter, which would make any water that passed through it mildly radioactive.
- - Radior cosmetics containing radium 1918. Ad for Radior cosmetics which the manufacturer claimed contained radium. The radium was supposed to have health benefits for one's skin.
- - Box, patch. Small enamel patch box oblong in shape, yellow enamel on outside, white on inside and black and white printed lid "Esteem the Giver", mirror inside lid.
- - Box, patch. Ivory patch box with lid decorated with green silk and medallion holding lock of hair originally belonged to Frances Anne Davis, nee Goodwin. shallow box with hinged lid; lock of hair set into lid; mirror inside lid; pink velvet interior.
- - As4O6-molecule-from-arsenolite-xtal-3D-balls. Ball-and-stick model of the As 4 O 6 molecule as found in the crystal structure of arsenolite, the low-temperature, cubic form of arsenic trioxide, As 2 O 3. X-ray crystallographic data from P.