The other things In Wallpaper for Margaretha Zelle, the man on horseback is her father portrayed as a flag-bearer for the guard of honour on the occasion of King Willem III’s visit to Leeuwarden in 1875. The pastel is by a Leeuwarden painter, Piet van der Hem, with whom she became acquainted with she lived in The Hague from 1915-1916. The photograph on canvas shows Margaretha, age 19 and just married to 39-year-old Rudolph MacLeod. The Wallpaper for Mata Hari represents the rise of the phenomenon - the myth - of Mata Hari. The photos lend a cinematic look to her performances. The perfume bottle is one of the few items left from her life in The Hague.

The two large canvases show her in her most famous guise.  Wallpaper for Lady MacLeod shows her as she wanted to be seen and portrayed: a lady of position, 'Lady MacLeod'. Into her napkins was woven 'McL' and a baron's crown. It is not exactly clear how many houses she lived in but it would be more than this series of photos shows.  Wallpaper for H21 refers to the code name given to her as a spy by the Germans. The large photos are each other's antitheses: the last glamour shot as the Lady and the police photo dated 13 February 1917, the day she was arrested. The two men who brought her to her doom were Captain Ladoux, head of the French intelligence service and Captain Bouchardon who supervised her interrogations.

Between their portraits are the last photographs of Margaretha Zelle and a money folder containing portraits of the English nurse Edith Cavell and Mata Hari facing one another: Cavell justly condemned to death by the Germans for espionage and Mata Hari executed by a French firing squad for dubious reasons. The text fragments come from the 1500-page file from the Mata Hari trial.  In one of the letters depicted, written from her cell, she says that everything is a misunderstanding, that Captain Ladoux took her to be a complex Parisienne but that she is simply a woman from the Northern Netherlands - from Friesland where people go straight after what they want without taking detours or making jokes... It seems that the worldly Lady was always Griet Zelle at heart: an ordinary girl from Leeuwarden who is now back home where she started.