collage;
album
- Museum number
- 1897,0505.717
- Description
-
Punica Granatum, formerly in an album (Vol.VIII, 16); pomegranate. 1778
Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background
- Production date
- 1778
- Dimensions
-
Height: 335 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 St James' Place, source of plant: Chelsea Physic Garden.
Exhibition label 1992:
'The pomegranate is indigenous to eastern Europe and western Asia but has been naturalised in this country for a long time'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1986 Sept. - Nov., NY, Pierpont Morgan Library, Mrs Delany's Flower Collages, no.42
1992 Sept.-Dec. BM, Flower Collages of Mary Delany
1994 May-July, Cardiff, Nat Mus of Wales, 'Mary Delany' (no cat.)
2007 July-Oct, BM, Enlightenment Gallery
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1897,0505.717
