collage;
album
- Museum number
- 1897,0505.578
- Description
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Mesembrianthemum, Aureum Solandri, formerly in an album (Vol.V, 78). 1780
Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background
- Production date
- 1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 301 millimetres
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Width: 222 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' Place, source of plant: Chelsea Physic Garden.
Exhibition label 1992:
''Lampranthus aureus', as this is known today, originated in South Africa. It was grown at the Chelsea Physic Garden by Philip Miller in c. 1750.
The Chelsea Physic Garden was founded by the Society of Apothecaries in 1673. Its heyday was during the eighteenth century after Sir Hans Sloane had provided essential financial support to ensure its survival, and Philip Miller, author of 'The Gardener's Dictionary' (London, 1731-9) a well known bestseller of the period, was superintendent there (1722-70). He specialised in the cultivation of numerous exotic plants. Miller was a regular visitor at Bulstrode'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1986 Sept. - Nov., NY, Pierpont Morgan Library, Mrs Delany's Flower Collages, no.100
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.)
2003/4 Dec-April, BM Enlightenment Gallery
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1897,0505.578
