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Five Colourful Histories – 1 hour talk at Petworth House
July 1, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UTC+0
1 JULY 2023
2.00pm – 3.00pm
Join Kassia St Clair, author of The Secret Lives of Colour, a top-ten bestseller and Radio 4 Book of the Week, for a one hour talk exploring the histories of five pigments, dyes and hues. Learn about the green that could have killed Charles Dickens before he wrote ‘A Tale of Two Cities’; the mollusks that gave us royal purple; and the costly blue that entranced artists of the Renaissance.
£15pp
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