collage;
album
- Museum number
- 1897,0505.748
- Description
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Rosa Villosa (Icosandria Polygynia), formerly in an album (Vol.VIII, 47); Apple rose. 1775
Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background
- Production date
- 1775
- Dimensions
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Height: 262 millimetres
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Width: 184 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 Park.
Exhibition label 1992:
'This type of rose is indigenous to central Europe and the Caucasus, and was introduced to this country in 1771'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1986 Sept. - Nov., NY, Pierpont Morgan Library, Mrs Delany's Flower Collages, no.57
1992 Sept. - Dec. BM, Flower Collages of Mary Delany
2010 June - Oct, London, BM, G1, Enlightenment Gallery
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1897,0505.748