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5. Mrs. Delany’s Paintings and Drawings: Adorning Aspasia’s Closet
Kim Sloan
Description: Mrs. Delany and her Circle
Mrs. Delany and her Circle
The essays in this book explore many ways of assessing the reputation of Mrs. Delany: as a craftswoman with many accomplished skills in embroidery, shellwork decoration, and cut paper; as an active participant in court circles; as a botanist and landscape gardener; and as a correspondent in the eighteenth-century epistolary world. The purpose of the present essay might at first appear to be to...
Author
Kim Sloan
PublisherYale Center for British Art
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2009 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.110-128
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00085.011
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19563
Chapter subject tags:Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788Women artists--Great Britain--18th centuryPainting, British--18th centuryDrawing, British--18th centuryWalpole, Horace, 1717-1797Art and society--Britain--History--18th centuryPaper work, British--18th century

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5. Mrs. Delany’s Paintings and Drawings: Adorning Aspasia’s Closet