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Mrs Delany and Her Circle
An exhibition about the life, world and work of Mary Delany.
At the age of 72, Mary Delany (1700–88) began her remarkable series of 1000 flower collages. Examples are shown alongside her embroidery, shellwork and landscape sketches and placed in the context of 18th-century English society.
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
24 September – 3 January 2010
Sir John Soane’s Museum,
London
19 February – 1 May 2010
Image:
Portlandia Grandiflora, from an album (Vol.VII, 91), Mary
Delany, 1782