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7. Mrs. Delany’s Circles of Cutting and Embroidering in Home and Garden
Mark Laird
Description: Mrs. Delany and her Circle
Mrs. Delany and her Circle
In Mrs. Delany’s lifetime, genteel women spent more time in the garden, as in the home generally, than did men...
Author
Mark Laird
PublisherYale Center for British Art
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2009 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.150-166
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00085.013
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19565
Chapter subject tags:Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788Gardens, English--History--18th centuryHorticulture--Great Britain--History--18th centuryBotanical illustration--England--18th centuryWomen artists--Great Britain--18th centuryEmbroidery, Georgian (British)Paper work, British--18th centuryCollage, English--18th century

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7. Mrs. Delany’s Circles of Cutting and Embroidering in Home and Garden