collage;
album
- Museum number
- 1897,0505.741
- Description
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Rosa Gallica (Icosandria Polygynia), formerly in an album (Vol.VIII, 40); Blush Rose. 1774
Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background
- Production date
- 1774
- Dimensions
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Height: 322 millimetres
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Width: 230 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See bibliographic references in curator's comment for 1897-5-5-1. Composition made at Bulstrode Park.
Exhibition label 1992:
'A variety of the red rose, or rose of Lancaster which originated in central Europe but has been in cultivation for centuries'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1986 Sept. - Nov., NY, Pierpont Morgan Library, Mrs Delany's Flower Collages, no.58
1979, BM, Flowers in art from East and West, M7
1992 Sept.-Dec. BM, Flower Collages of Mary Delany
1994 May-July, Cardiff, Nat Mus of Wales, 'Mary Delany' (no cat.)
1995 Nov-Dec, Dublin, NG of Ireland, Mary Delany (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1897,0505.741