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Article: Monet's foggy vision is accurate.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2006
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Byline: By Shahid Naqvi
The industrial fog that engulfed London in the Victorian era has long provided an enduring image of the capital.
Immortalised by the 19th Century novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, the notorious "pea souper" added atmosphere to his classic horror novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also used the lethal mixture of polluting chemicals to equal effect in his Sherlock Holmes books.
But in the absence of photographic evidence, literary descriptions have been the main source for a sense ...