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Hand-printed wallpaper by Jean-Baptiste Réveillon, c. 1780–90; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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William Morris

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Illustration by Walter Crane for The Frog Prince (1873).

Walter Crane

British illustrator and painter

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