collage;
album
- Museum number
- 1897,0505.278
- Description
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Dianthus Caryophyllus, formerly in an album (Vol.III, 77); Jersey Pink. 1779
Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background
- Production date
- 1779
- Dimensions
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Height: 254 millimetres
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Width: 201 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See bibliographic references in curator's comment for 1897-5-5-1. Composition made at St James's Place, plant source: from General Conway, Park Place (originally from Jersey).
Exhibition label 1992:
'The carnation originated in southern France and other parts of the Mediterranean but its date of introduction to England is unknown because it has been cultivated here since at least the fourteenth century. Mrs Delany made numerous collages of cultivated varieties of carnations, of which two are displayed here.
Henry Seymour Conway (1721-95) led a military and political career and was a member of the cabinet in Rockingham's Whig goverments of 1765-6 and 1782. An interest in botany was one of his private pursuits: during his retirement he propagated poplars from cutting brought from Lombardy. He was a lifelong friend of the author, Horace Walpole (1717-97) who was also well acquainted with Mrs Delany'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1986 Sept. - Nov., NY, Pierpont Morgan Library, Mrs Delany's Flower Collages, no.85
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.)
2007, 3 Jan-12 Mar, BM Enlightenment Gallery
2023, 31 Jan- 4 May, BM Enlightenment Gallery
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1897,0505.278