collage;
album
- Museum number
- 1897,0505.277
- Description
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Dianthus Caryophyllus, formerly in an album (Vol.III, 76); Pink or Carnation var. 1778
Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background
- Production date
- 1778
- Dimensions
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Height: 300 millimetres
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Width: 227 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, plant sent by Queen Charlotte to Bulstrode.
Exhibition label 1992:
'Both George III and Queen Charlotte were keen botanists and were so impressed by Mrs Delany's collection, which they had requested to see when they first met her at the Duchess of Portland's home, Bulstrode, in 1776, that they instructed Joseph Banks to send specimens of any new foreign plants arriving at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to her to copy. After the Duchess of Portland's death in 1785, the King and Queen invited her to live in a 'grace and favour' house at Windsor and from this time until her death in 1788, Mrs Delany was on terms of close and informal friendship with them'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1986 Sept. - Nov., NY, Pierpont Morgan Library, Mrs Delany's Flower Collages, no.45
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.)
2017 3 Feb-23 Apr, New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the Shaping of the Modern World
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1897,0505.277
