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Description: Mrs. Delany and her Circle
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PublisherYale Center for British Art
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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00085.023
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The collages and artwork of Mary Delany are listed under her name.
Aberdeen, Scotland, 141
Ackerman, Rudolph, 96
Ackerman’s Repository of Art, London, 96
Ackworth School, 191
Adair, Mrs., 86
Adam, Robert, 102
Addison, Joseph, 150, 151, 153
Addlestone nursery, Chertsey, 195
Agnew, Mrs. Rhoda. See Astley, Rhoda (later Mrs. Agnew)
Ailsbury, Lady Frances, 102
Aiton, William, 36, 163, 165, 166–67, 191, 191, 195, 197, 199, 201, 219
A la Ronde, Devon, 104, 105
Albury Park, Surrey, 125
Alexander, James, 207
Alfred, Prince, 61
Allen, David E., 34
Allen, Ralph, 38
All The Year Round (magazine), 15
The Ambulator (Palmer), 211, 213
Amelia, Princess, 14, 15, 42, 51, 51, 56, 156
Anderson, Robert, 195
Andover, Lady. See Howard, Mary
Anecdotes of Painting in England (Walpole), 13
Anglo-Irish Ascendency, 6
Anne, Queen of England, 2, 3, 43, 46, 50, 60, 81, 82, 86, 89, 90, 112, 150, 219
Anne, Princess, 51, 119
Anson, Lady, 87
Anstey, Christopher, 244
Anstey, Mary, 102
“Antirrhinum cymbalaria” (Ehret), 157
“Aphaca” (Ehret), 136, 137
Appadurai, Arjun, 132
Aprons, 72, 85, 85, 176
Ariosto, 50
Arnold, Janet, 28, 29
Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus (de Scudéry), 50
Art and craft kits, 96, 97, 98, 99
Art de faire le papier à la Chine: Les explications ont été envoyées (Anonymous), 242
The Artist in His Studio (Paye), 38, 38
Artlove, Mrs., 96
Art of Drawing and Painting in Water-Colours, 231, 232
The Art of Japanning, Varnishing, Pollishing, and Gilding (Artlove), 96
Arundell, Lady, 87
“Aspasia” (nickname for Mary Delany), 50, 120–21, 126, 128
Aspasia (wife of Pericles), 120
“Aspasia’s Picture, Drawn by Philomel, in the year 1742” (Donnellan), 121
Astley, Rhoda (later Mrs. Agnew), 12, 119, 120, 214.
“Astrantia foliis quinquelobis lobis trifidis Linn” with “Reseda Aegyptiaca” (Ehret), 160
Athenian Letters (Yorke), 120
“Athenian” Stuart, 102
Aubriet, Claude, 199
Augusta, Princess (sister of George III), 52, 53, 56
Augusta (of Saxe-Gotha), Princess of Wales, 29, 36, 42, 51, 52, 54, 58, 60, 74, 161, 163, 166, 191, 195, 208, 220
Australia, 20, 166
Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany (Llanover, ed.), 15, 62, 67, 112, 166
Bachelard, Gaston, 139
Bacon, Lord, 166
Badminton Park, Gloucestershire, 35, 219
Bahamas, 20
Ballard, George, 10
Baltimore, Lord, 50, 53
Banks, Sir Joseph, 20, 59, 132, 141, 161, 163, 166, 183, 184, 191, 197, 199, 204, 215, 220, 234
Barber, Rupert, 4
Barberini vase. See Portland Vase
Bardwell, Thomas, 43
Bare-Headed Gorgonia sea shrub (Ellis), 180
Barnard, Toby, 16
Barnes, Richmond upon Thames, 164, 214
Bartram, John, 165, 180, 207, 212, 215
Bas Bleu (H. More), 60
Baskerville, John, 244
Bateman, John, 2nd Viscount, 153, 220
Bateman, Richard, 33, 150, 164, 214, 220
Bath, 1st Earl of (John Granville), 46
Bath, 2nd Earl of (John Granville Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville), 42, 43, 49, 53
Bath, 1st Marquis of. See Weymouth, 3rd Viscount (Thomas Thynne)
Bathurst, Lady Frances, 81
Bathurst Park, Cirencester, 116
Battle of Lansdowne (1643), 42
Beattie, James, 59, 60
Beauchamp, Lord, 81
Beaufort, 1st Duchess of (Mary Capel Somerset), 35, 219
Beaufort, 5th Duchess of (Elizabeth Boscawen), 60
Bedford, 4th Duchess of (Gertrude Leveson-Gower), 43, 70, 76
Bedford, 4th Duke of, Viceroy of Ireland (John Russell), 54
“Bee of Gwent.” See Llanover, Lady
The Beggar’s Opera (Gay), 84
Bentinck, Elizabeth or Lady Betty. See Weymouth, 3rd Viscountess
Bentinck, Henrietta, 215, 224
Bentinck, Isabella. See Monck, Isabella
Bentinck, Margaret, 56
Bentinck, William. See Portland, Earl of
Bemingham, Ann, 2, 94
Bill Hill, Reading, Berkshire, 43, 56, 160, 163, 166, 207, 208, 211, 212
Bill of Rights of 1689, 40–41
Bingley, Charlotte, 95
Biographia Britannica: or, Lives of the Most Eminent Persons . . . in Great Britain and Ireland (Kippis), 15
“Birmingham boxes,” 138
Blackheath Park estate, London, 164, 214, 216
Blaikie, Thomas, 163
Blauw, Cornelis, 238
Blauw, Dirk, 238
Blenheim Palace, 72, 107
Bluestockings, 4, 36, 60, 102, 141, 143, 161, 166
Bobart, Jacob, 219
Boleyn, Anne, 4
Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire, 51
Bolton, Duchess of, 81
Bolton, James, 157, 182
Bolton, Thomas, 182
Bonnell, Mr. and Miss, 105
Booth Grey Collection. See Grey, Hon. William Booth
Boscawen, Admiral Edward, 60
Boscawen, Elizabeth. See Beaufort, 5th Duchess of
Boscawen, Frances, 4, 43, 56, 60, 60, 164, 215
Boscawen, Hugh (1st Viscount Falmouth), 46
Boscawen, Lucy, 53, 60
Botanical collages, list of.See Delany Mary Granville Pendarves – botanical collages
Botanical Magazine (Curtis), 165, 166, 197
Botanical sources, 204–23. See also Linnaean botany
Botanical Tables Containing the Different Familys of British Plants (Bute), 190, 208, 209
The Botanic Garden (Darwin), 13, 15
Bowes, Mary Eleanor (Countess of Strathmore), 201
Bowles, Thomas, III, 56
Boyd, Lady Catherine, née Chapone, 216
Boyd, Sir John, 214, 215, 216
Bradley Oak, Worcestershire, 123
Brighton, 166
Bristol, Earl of, 89
Brown, James, 98, 105
Brown, Lancelot Capability, 155, 216
Browne, Patrick, 201
Brummitt, Richard, 193
Bucholz, Robert, 82, 85, 90
Buck, Anne, 66
Buckingham House, London, 40, 57
Buckland Manor, Gloucestershire, 112, 150
Budworth Magna, 224
Buenos Aires the Seat of Benjamin Hyett Esq. near Panswyke [Painswick House] Gloucestershire (Robins the Elder), 153, 153
Bullinbrock, Lord, 89
Bulstrode (Grimm), 178, 179
Bulstrode, Buckinghamshire, 4, 9, 11, 20, 29, 30, 31, 33, 36, 38, 50, 56, 60, 61, 74, 102, 116–17, 125, 132, 134, 136, 139, 141–42, 147, 153, 156, 157, 160, 165, 166, 172, 173, 177, 178–85, 179, 188, 199, 202, 204–5, 211, 212, 219, 220, 224, 228, 239
Bunsen, Madame, 73
Burke, Edmund, 1, 166
Burlington, Countess of, 113
Burney, Charles, 56, 59
Burney, Edward Francis, 135
Burney, Fanny, 4, 12, 15
Burn Mill, Romsey, 239
Burrell, Peter, 37
Bushe, Letitia, 4, 114–15, 116, 124, 126
Bute, 3rd Earl of (John Stuart), 20, 36, 58, 160, 161, 163, 166, 190, 208, 209, 211
Bute, Lady, 58, 160, 208, 211, 230
Buxton, 181
“A Cabbage-Leaf filled with Field Flowers” (Forbes), 159
Cabinetmakers and cabinets, 98. See also Closet and cabinet display
A Cabinet of Curiosities (Talman), 130
Café, John or William, 178
‘Calceolaria Fothergilea’ (Grey), 196
Calceolariafothergillii (Sowerby), 196
Calwich Abbey, Staffordshire, 139, 173
Campbell, Lady Anne, 81
Campbell, John. See Loudon, 4th Earl of
Canaletto, 49
Candelabra (Café), 178
Canning, George, 84
Capel, Elizabeth, 155
Cape of Good Hope, 163, 201, 219, 220
Cardigan, Lady, 81
Card playing, 60
Carey Mrs., 115
Carlisle, Lady, 91
Carlton House and gardens, London, 29, 36, 36, 57, 150, 166
Caroline, Queen, 33, 47, 49, 49, 50, 53, 73, 156
Caroline, Princess, 51, 119, 156
Carriera, Rosalba, 116, 117, 119
Carteret, Bridget, 50, 53
Carteret, George, 42
Carteret, Georgina. See Cowper, Lady
Carteret, Grace, 51, 53
Carteret, John. See Bath, 2nd Earl of; Granville, 2nd Earl
Casteels, Pieter, 156
A Catalogue of Plants copyed from Nature in Paper Mosaick, . . . according to the . . . names of Linnæus (Delany), 184, 259
A Catalogue of the Portland Museum (Lightfoot), 38, 135, 138, 141, 145, 160
Catesby Mark, 156, 165, 226
Cavendish, Margaret. See Portland, 2nd Duchess of
Chambers, Zachary, 57, 205
Channel Islands (Jersey), 216
Chaplin, Miss, 86
Chapone, Hester, 102
Chapone, Sally. See Sandford, Sally Chapone (goddaughter of Mary Delany)
Charles I, King of England, 42
Charles II, King of England, 40, 42
Charlotte, Queen of England, 1, 12, 14, 15, 40, 42, 56, 58, 61, 82, 100, 104, 107, 161, 166, 207, 228, 229
“Checkered Mitre Mitra Tessellata”, 183
Chelsea Physic Garden, London, 29, 35, 48, 132, 141, 161, 163, 165, 188, 191, 197, 199, 204, 214, 215, 219, 228
Chelsea Porcelain Factory, 137
Chesterfield, Lord, 55
China, 20, 133, 166, 242
Christ’s Hospital school, 61
Churchill, John. See Marlborough, 1st Duke of; Marlborough, 2nd Duke of
Churchill, Sarah. See Marlborough, 2nd Duchess of
Church of England, 59
Chute family, 102
Civil and Natural History of Jamaica (Browne), 201
“Clarissa Harlowe,” 100
“Claude glass,” 138
Clayton, Charlotte, née Donnellan, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 114, 172
Clayton, Emilia, 60
Clayton, Lady Louisa, 60
Clayton, Robert (bishop of Killala), 4, 54, 55, 55, 114, 139, 172
Clélie (de Scudéry), 50
Clermont, Andien de, 31
Cliveden estate, 51, 91
Closet and cabinet display 130, 131–34, 135–36, 138–43, 174
A Closet at Wimbledon Park, Surrey (Stuart), 130, 131
Coke, Lady Jane, 89
Colden, Cadwallader, 134
Cole, William, 158
Collages, list of. See Delany, Mary Granville Pendarves – botanical collages
Colley, Miss, 66
Collier, Joseph, 238
Collinson, Peter, 134, 136–37, 145, 147, 165, 179, 180, 204, 207, 215
Colney Hatch, London, 211
Compton, Henry (bishop of London), 219
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, 58, 214, 215
Conchology, 4, 60, 134–41, 172–75, 180–84, 180, 182–83
Conway, Henry Seymour, 164, 216
Cook, Captain James, 20, 59, 141, 183, 195, 196
Cornbury, Oxfordshire, 33, 152, 152
Cornforth, John, 31, 33
Cornwall, Duchy of, 46–47, 207
Correspondence of 1804 (Richardson), 15
Coulston, Wiltshire, 1
Court life, 40–65
dressing for, 84–91
Courtney, John, 101
Covent Garden theater, 47
Coventry, Lady Anne, 175
Cowper, Lady (Georgina, née Carteret, later Mrs. John Spencer), 42, 43, 56, 60, 73, 80
Cowper, Lady Sarah, 88
Cozens, Alexander, 124, 125
Cozens, John Robert, 124
Craftwork done by women, 94–108. See also Embroidery; Shellwork
Cree, John the elder, 195
Cruikshank, George, 86
Cruikshank, Issac Robert, 86
Cullum, Rev. Sir John, 214, 215
Cumberland, Duchess of, 60
Curtis, William, 161, 163, 165, 166, 193, 197
Cuzzoni, Mme., 48
Cymbiola aulica aulica, 183
Danson Hill estate, Kent, 214, 215, 216
D’arcy, Amelia, 88
Dartmouth, 2nd Earl of (William Legge), 58, 164, 204, 214, 216
Darwin, Erasmus, 13, 15, 234
Dashwood, Mrs., 164, 214, 215
Day, Angélique, 16
Dejima Island, 201
Delany, Mary Granville Pendarves (1700–1788), 5, 12, 14, 41, 111
Note: See following headings for lists of collages, other artwork, and writings.
biographies and collected correspondence of, 10, 15, 16, 62, 119, 131–47, 166
botanical studies and sources, 188–220. See also botanical collages, below
embroidery. see other artwork, below
family trees related to, 44–45
“Flora Delanica”, 9, 10, 12, 15, 20–27, 35, 61, 181, 212, 215
life at court and, 40–62, 80–91
marriage to Delany (1743–1768). See Delany, Patrick
marriage to Pendarves (1717–1726). See Pendarves, Alexander
natural history/zoology and, 172–85
needlework pocket-book from Queen Charlotte to, 228
paper, use of, 236–47
“paper mosaick” tools and techniques, 224–35
shells, study and decorative use of, 4, 8, 60, 110, 134–41, 172–84
Delany, Mary Granville Pendarves—botanical collages
‘Acanthus spinosus’, 188
‘Alstromeria Ligtu’, 24
‘Amaryllis ? attamyasco’, 214, 215
‘Amaryllis aurea’, 215
‘Amaryllis Beladonna’, 239
‘Amaryllis Belladonna Reginæ’, 240
‘Amaryllis Regis’, 214, 215, 216
‘Amygdalus Nana’, 164, 215
‘Amygdalus Persica’, 164, 164
‘Antirrhinum Genistifolium’, 240
‘Arbutus unedo’, 231
‘Arctotis calendulacea’, 24, 163
‘Arum esculentum’, 230
‘Æsculus Hippocastanum’, 231
‘Aster cordifolia’, 163
‘Aster Dumosus’, 163
‘Budleja capitata’, 211
‘Cactus grandiflorus ?’, 25, 220
‘Calla æthiopica’, 216
‘Canna Indica’, 216
‘Carthamus cæruleus’, 163
‘Cassia Marylandica’, 164, 216
‘Catesbæa spinosa’, 20, 22
‘Centaurea moschata’, 163
‘Cheiranthus cheiri’, 164, 215
‘Chrysanthemum Lucanthemum’, 160, 229
‘Citrus Medica’, 11, 11
‘Clethra alnifolia’, 228, 230, 242
‘Convallaria majalis’, 1, 1
‘Conyza inuloides’, 220
‘Crinum africanum’, 208, 209
‘Crinum asiaticum’, 164
‘Cynoglossum omphalodes’, 24
‘Dianthus caryophyllus a variety Jersey Pink’, 164
‘Dracæna terminalis’, 143, 146, 147
‘Erica coccinea ?’, 25
‘Eryngium alpinum’, 163, 212
‘Flox divaricata’, 165
‘Fumaria fungosa’, 22, 144, 211
‘Geranium fulgidum’, 25, 194, 195, 239
‘Geranium lanceolatum’, 219
‘Geranium macrorhizon’, 161, 224
‘Geranium radula’, 219
‘Geranium triste’, 219
‘Geranm: alchemilloides’, 216
‘Geranm: Inquinans’, 216, 217
‘Geranm: Peltatum’, 216, 218
‘Geranm: trigonum’, 219
‘Gordonia Lasianthus’, 163
‘Helonias Asphodeloides’, 23
‘Hemanthus coccineus’, 208
‘Hyacinthus orientalis Ophir’, 166, 216
‘Ipomoea rubra’, 198, 199
‘Ixia crocata’, 24, 228
“Lady Stamford’s Rose”, 201
‘Lathyrus pratensis’, 165
‘Lathyrus Sativus’, 211
‘Lavatera olbia’, 230, 231
‘Lepidium Alpinum’, 163
‘Lightfootia canescens’, 241
‘Liriodendron Tulipifera’, 243
‘Lithospermum purpurocaeruleum’, 228
‘Lobelia Cardinalis’, 23, 28, 161
‘Lobelia pubescens’, 200, 201
‘Ludwigia ovata’, 241
‘Magnolia grandiflora’, 20, 22, 43, 159, 162, 163, 211
‘Melia Azedarch’, 164
‘Mimosa arborea’, 164, 220
‘Mirabilis longiflora’, 20, 22
‘Mitella diphylla’, 163
‘Moss Province Rose’, 21
‘Myosotis scorpioides’, 207
‘Narcissus Poeticus’, 36, 227, 229
‘Narcissus tazetta var: Polyanthos Narcisse’, 25, 158
‘Nicotiana rustica’, 220
‘Nymphæa alba’, 21
‘Ocymum rugosum’, 201, 201
‘Oenothera grandiflora’, 23, 199
‘Olea odoratissima’, 163, 188, 197
‘Ophris apifera’, 161, 192
‘Pancratium Maritinum’, 26, 27
‘Papaver Cambricum’, 21, 160, 161
‘Parnassia Palustris’, 21
‘Passiflora Laurifolia’, 37, 144, 211, 236, 236
‘Passiflora rubra’, 163
‘Philadelphus aromaticus’, 26, 195
‘Phlomis Leonurus’, 163
‘Phlomis Zeilanica’, 163
‘Phlox Carolina’, 165
‘Phlox suaveolens’, 165, 166
‘Phlox undulata’, 165
‘Physalis cretica’, 164
‘Piumeria rubra’, 220
‘Portlandia grandiflora’, 26, 165, 193, 201
‘Potentilla recta’, 163
‘Primula veris’, 151
‘Primula Veris elatior’, 192, 193
‘Punica nana’, 220
‘Pyrus Cydonia’, 143, 147
‘Radbeckia laciniata . . . and 2 varieties of China Aster’, 161
‘Reseda odorata’, 158
‘Rododendron Ferrugineum’, 163
‘Rubus Cæsius’, 163
‘Rubus fruticosus’, 207
‘Sanguinaria Canadensis’, 23
‘Saxifraga stolonifera’, 26, 118
‘Saxifragia stellaris’, 215
‘Scarlet Geranium & Lobelia Cardinalis’, 28, 161
‘Sea Campion’, 160
‘Sigesbeckia occidentalis’, 163
‘Solanum Melongena’, 163
‘Tormentilla reptans’, 165
‘Trifolium pratense’, 165
tulip cultivar, 146, 147
‘Viola Calcarata’, 242, 242
Delany, Mary Granville Pendarves—other artwork
cut-paper work and silhouettes, 58, 58, 112, 113, 128, 224–34, 233
embroidery designs sewn by or attributed to, 15, 66–77, 110, 150–71
apron, 72
firescreen, 2, 3
seat cushion, 102, 103
skirt panel, 6, 7, 67, 69, 71
stomacher, 72, 73
textile fragment, 30
gardening and domestic decorative arts, 94–107, 150–67
by title
The Arbour Oak at Bradley in Worcestershire Belonging to Mr. Dewes, 123
Bouquet of Flowers, 154, 155
The cave at the end of Dovedale in Derbyshire, 32, 33
A Cott in Blank–The Peacefull Residence of your faithful MD, 1744, 8, 9, 115
Delville fireside 27 Feby 1750/51, 111, 115
A Dog Chasing Wild Fowl, 121
“Flower Paintings/ ? the work of Mrs Delany,” 125
Fort St. Davids Bull—drawn from the Life by Mrs. Delany at Bulstrode 1755, 184, 185
“A green drake Fly,” 174, 175, 176
Hostess at Leicester, 174, 175
The Indian Seat at Wroxton, 152
Java Hare, Drawn from the Life by Mrs. Delany at Bulstrode, 1755, 184
Landscape with a Couple by a Stile, 122–23
Marianna illustrations, 250, 252, 254, 256
A Modern Lady, 174
The North-East view of Newark near Glocester, 112
Portrait of Rosalba Carriera (after Carriera), 116, 117
A Seat in Wood Island at Holly-mount, 126
The Secretary, 184, 185
Specimens of Rare and Beautiful Needlework, 15, 67, 72
A Stem of Stock, 12
Thorp Cloud, Dovedale, Derbyshire, from the Top of Ham Moor, 123
Three Women and Cow, 125
Two Chained Hunting Dogs, 120
A view of the Bridge & Grotto at Calwich, 1756, 173
A View of Bulstrode Park, 116–17
A View of Hanbury Pools in Worcestershire, 112, 113
A view of Matlock with the Cascade, 153, 153
A view of part of ye little Grove of evergreens at Delville wth. ye Country beyond it & Bay of Dublin, 126, 127
A View of Part of Dublin Harbour and Deville Garden from the Bow Window in Mrs. Delany’s Closet, 138, 139
A view of ye Beggars Hut in Delville garden, 151
A View of ye improvements in ye Stone quarry at Cornbury the seat of the Earl of Clarendon in Oxfordshire 15 Novr 1746, 152
A View of ye Lake at Seaforde Belonging to Mathew Forde Esqr in ye County of Down Ireland, 123
A View of Ye Swift & Swans Island in Delville Garden 30 Dec 1745, 8
Delany, Mary Granville Pendarves—writings
“A British flora after the sexual system of Linnaeus”, 10, 15, 188
A Catalogue of Plants copyed from Nature in Paper Mosaick, . . . according to the . . . names of Linnœus, 184, 259
Marianna, 128, 172, 174, 238, 250–61
Delany, Patrick (2nd husband of Mary, d. 1768), 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 31, 40, 46, 50, 54–56, 61, 110, 114, 119, 122, 123, 128, 151, 153
Deliciae Botanicae (Ehret), 190
Deloraine, Lady, 81
DeLuc, Jean-André, 59
Delville, Dublin, Ireland, 6, 8, 9, 11, 15, 31, 33, 34, 37–39, 55, 59, 94, 110, 115, 119, 122, 126, 127, 131, 132, 134, 138, 139, 139, 145, 147, 151, 154, 155, 172, 173, 175, 177
Denny, Lady Arbella, 55
DePhillips, Henry, Jr., 227
Derby, Earl of, 156
Derbyshire, 153, 207
Derwentwater, Countess of (Ann), 100
Derwentwater, 3rd Earl of (James), 100
“A Description of Doctor Delany’s Villa” (Sheridan), 8
Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole . . . at Strawberry-Hill (Walpole), 13
“Design L” (Wright), 140
Devonshire, 5th Duchess of (Georgiana, née Spencer), 42, 60, 91, 102
Dewes, Anne Granville (sister of Mary Delany), 4, 51, 53, 54, 60, 66, 73, 80, 102, 113, 120, 126, 131, 134, 175, 232
Dewes, Bernard (nephew of Mary Delany), 57
Dewes, Court (nephew of Mary Delany), 57, 60
Dewes, John (brother-in-law of Mary Delany), 51, 58, 123, 207
Dewes, Mary Port (niece of Mary Delany), 42, 60, 66, 204, 216
Dewes, Simon, 15
A Dialogue on Beauty in the Manner of Plato (Stubbes), 120
Diary and Letters, 1842–46 (Burney), 15
Dictionary of National Biography, 220
Dietzsch, Barbara Regina, 2
Dietzsch family, 160, 204
Dillenius, John Jacob, 188, 198, 199
Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium (Merian), 177
Dodsley, James, 244–45
Donnellan, Anne, 4, 54, 55, 89, 114, 117, 120, 121, 137, 172
Donnellan, Charlotte. See Clayton, Charlotte
Donnellan, Dr., 115
Donnellan family, 55
Dormer, Sir Clement Cottrell, 54
Dorset, 3rd Duchess of (Frances Leveson-Gower), 43, 81
Douglas, Lady Jane, 2
Douglas House, Petersham, 48
Down diocese, 54
Downman, John, 244, 245
Downpatrick parish, 8
Dress design, 28–29, 29–30, 6677, 66–93, 8083, 8588
Dressing for a Birthday (Rowlandson), 87
Druce, George C., 188, 193, 202
Drury Lane Theatre, London, 47
Dryander, Jonas Carl, 191
Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, 150
Dublin Castle, Ireland, 6, 66
Dufour, Mr., 177
Dunham Massey, Cheshire, 202
Durham, James and Richard, 238
Dyck, Anthony van, 119
Dysart, Lady Grace (cousin of Mary Delany), 48, 53, 70, 117, 119
Dyve, Dorothy and Penelope, 50
Ealing gardens, London, 214
Early Georgian Interiors (Cornforth), 31
East Indies, 139, 140, 197
“Echinopus major” (Ehret), 160
The Economy of Vegetation (E. Darwin), 13
Eden: Or, A Compleat Body of Gardening (Hill), 34
Edgeworth, Maria, 102, 105
Educational values, 60
Edward, Duke of Kent, 52, 53
Edwards, George, 31
Edwards, Sydenham, 161
Eger, Elizabeth, 141
Egerian Grotto, Rome, 139
Egmont, Earl of (John Perceval), 55, 81, 88, 90, 115
Egmont, Lady, 90
Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 2, 9, 31, 33, 36, 136, 137, 143, 144, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 166, 175, 177, 181, 188, 189, 190, 190, 204, 226, 228
Elizabeth, Princess, 91, 220
Ellis, John, 180
Ellis, Mrs., 85
Ellstob, Elizabeth, 4, 60
Elwood, Mrs., 226
Ely, Lady, 85
Embroidery, 95–96, 95–97, 100–101, 102, 103, 106, 150–71, 176. See also Delany, Mary Granville Pendarves (1700–1788) – other artwork; Dress design
Endeavour (ship), 141, 204
Enlightenment, 59
Enumeratio Plantarum in Ericeto Hampstediano (T. Johnson), 161
Elpistolary culture, 130–49
Ernest, Prince, 61
Erskine, Lord and Lady, 87
An Essay towards a Natural History of the Corallines (Ellis), 180
Evelyn, John and Mary, 60
Ewell Mill, Surrey, 238
Excise stamps, 240, 241
Fabrice, Friedrich Ernest von, 50
The Fair Lady Working Tambour (unknown), 98, 99
Falkland Islands, 196
Falmouth, Earl of (Boscawen), 53
Falmouth, Viscountess, 50
Fan, oriental design, 133
Farrington, William, 155
Farwell, Mr., 214
Feathers, use of, 102, 104–5
Fetherstonhaugh, Lady Sarah, 155
Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants (P. Miller), 136, 137
Filices britannicae; an History of the British Proper Ferns (Bolton), 182
Finch, Lady Charlotte, 58, 60
Fiske, Mrs., 83
Fitzherbert, Mrs. Maria, 166
Fletcher, Henry, 156
Flora Anglica (Hudson), 10, 159, 161, 181, 188
Flora Attired by the Elements (Fuseli), 13
Flora Japonica (Thunberg), 201
Flora Londinensis (Curtis), 161, 166, 193
‘Flora Nunehamica’ (Walpole), 166
Flora of Buckinghamshire (Druce), 193
Flora Scotica; or, A Systematic Arrangement, in the Linnaean Method of the Native Plants of Scotland and the Hebrides (Lightfoot), 181
The Flowering of the Landscape Garden (Laird), 33, 205
Flowers in a Vase (Capel), 155
Foley, Grace (later Countess of Clanbrasil), 55
Foley, Thomas (later 1st Lord), 55
Forbes, Mary, née Capel, 155, 158, 159
Ford Mill, Kent, 239
Forster, Georg, 59
Forster, Johann Reinhold, 59, 195
Forsyth, William, 165
Forth, Dorothea, 51
Forth, Francis, 51
Forth Hamilton. see Hamilton, Dorothea Forth
Foster, Mrs. Bacon, 98
Fothergill, Dr. John, 20, 141, 191, 196, 199, 214, 215, 219
Foucault, Michel, 132
Fox, Caroline, 154
Fraser, John, 165
Frederick, Prince of Wales, 29, 30, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 70, 74, 81, 84, 89, 90–91, 156, 166, 220
Freeman, Mr. and Mrs., 107
French, Henry and Thomas, 238
Fréret, Louise, 195
Frying Sprats, Vide Royal Supper (Gillray), 82, 82
Fulham garden, 219
‘Fumaria fungosa’ (Grey), 230, 244
Furber, Robert, 156
Fuseli, Henry, 13
Gainsborough, Thomas, 36, 244–45
The Gardeners Dictionary (P. Miller), 137
“Garden of Adonis” (Spenser), 151
The Garden of Eden (Prest), 34
Garden projects, 134–35
Garthwaite, Anna-Maria, 2, 70–72, 74, 75–77, 156
Gater, John, 239
Gay, John, 84
Gender Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830 (Styles and Vickery, eds.), 16, 31
A General View of the Roads of England and Wales (Paterson), 206, 207
Genera plantarum (Linnaeus), 188
Gentleman’s Magazine, 215
George I, King of England, 42, 46, 47, 48, 85
George II, King of England, 29, 30, 42, 48, 50, 51, 53, 56, 81, 84, 90, 204
George III, King of England, 1, 12, 14, 15, 40, 41, 52, 53, 56, 59, 59, 61, 82, 84, 87, 91, 191, 207, 216
George IV, King of England, 55, 82
Georgian workboxes, 98
Geraniologia (L’Héritier), 195, 197
‘Geranium macrorrhisum’ (Grey), 36, 226, 227, 229, 231, 232, 233
Germain, Lady Betty, 89
Gerrevinck, Abraham van, 238, 239
Gerrevinck, Isaac van, 238, 239
Gerrevinck, Lubertus van, 238, 239
Ghini, Luca, 34
Giant’s Causeway, Ireland, 6, 20, 126, 140, 141
Giffard, Miss Elizabeth, 98
Gillows of Lancaster, 98
Gillray, James, 82, 82
Gilpin, Reverend William, 9–10, 11, 110, 124, 145, 147, 188, 228
Girouard, Mark, 31
Gisborne, Thomas, 106
Gian Villa, Colney Hatch, 208, 211, 215
Glanvilla, Enfield, 164, 215
Glegg, Jenny, 74–75
Glin, Knight of, 16
Glorious Revolution of 1688, 40, 42, 47
Gloucester, Duke of, 60
Gloucestershire, 73, 207
Godolphin, Lord, 158
Golden Ball, Windmill St., London, 238
Goldney Grotto, Bristol, 140
Gordon, Duchess of, 91
Gordon, Duke of, 43
Gouldsworthy, Miss, 60
Goupy, Joseph, 117
Goupy, Louis, 117, 119, 120
Gower, 1st Earl (John Leveson-Gower), 43, 54
Gower, Dowanger Countess, née Mary Tufton, 43, 152, 160, 164, 208, 211
Grafton, Duchess of, 89
Grantham, Mary, 86
Granville, 2nd Earl (John Carteret), 43, 43
Granville, Anne (sister of Mary Delany). See Dewes, Anne Granville
Granville, Bernard (brother of Mary Delany), 3, 47, 53, 123, 134, 139, 161, 173, 204
Granville, Bernard (father of Mary Delany), 2, 42
Granville, Sir Bevill (d. 1643), 42
Granville, Elizabeth (maid of honour to Princess Augusta of Wales), 50, 53, 54, 56
Granville, Elizabeth (maid of honour to Queen Anne), 46, 53
Granville, George (uncle of Mary Delany). See Lansdowne, Lord
Granville, Grace (later Countess Granville and Viscountess Carteret), 42, 50, 51, 53
Granville, Grace (later Lady Foley), 55
Granville, John. See Bath, 1st Earl of
Granville, Mary. See Delany, Mary Granville Pendarves (1700–1788)
Granville, Mary Villiers Thynne. See Lansdowne, Lady
Granville family tree, 42–43, 132
Gray, Thomas, 158
Great Parterre at Longleat (Thacker), 150, 156
Greening, Robert, 163
Green Park, London, 42, 205
Greer, Germaine, 94
Gregory, Dr., 102
Greig, Hannah, 29
Grey, George (5th Earl of Stamford), 201
Grey, Marchioness Jemima, 81, 87, 101
Grey, Lady Mary. See Stamford, Dowager Countess of
Grey, Hon. Booth, 36, 163, 165, 166, 195, 196, 202, 214, 215, 224–34, 226, 236, 238, 240, 242, 243
Grignion, Charles, 135
Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus, 173, 178–79, 208
Grosvenor, Lady, 60
Grotto design, 136, 138–41, 172–73
Grotto in the Park at Bulstrode (Grimm), 173
Grove House, Old Windsor, 32, 33, 110, 153, 164, 214, 220
Grove Mill, Eyehorne Street, 239
Grufberg, I. O., 193
The Guardian (newspaper), 102
Guilford, 1st Earl of (Francis North), 33, 58, 159, 214–15
Hall, Augusta, née Waddington (great-grandniece of Mary Delany).see Llanover, Lady
Haller, Albrecht von, 163
Ham House garden, Surrey, 48
Hamilton, Lord Archibald, 51
Hamilton, Charles, 51, 155
Hamilton, Dorothea Forth, 175, 176, 177
Hamilton, Duchess of, 86
Hamilton, Duke of, 43
Hamilton, Elizabeth, 51, 53
Hamilton, Mrs. Frances, 15, 60, 138
Hamilton, George (1st Earl of Orkney), 51
Hamilton, Lady Jane Archibald, 51, 52, 53, 54
Hamilton, Mary, 60, 216
Hamilton, Miss, 74
Hamilton, Sir William, 42, 60, 107
Hammond, Sir J., 89
Hamner, Lady Catherine, 115
Hampton Court, 48
Hanbury, Charlotte, 234
Handel, George Frideric, 1, 3, 47, 50, 56, 62
Handicrafts done by women, 94–108. See also Embroidery; Shellwork
Hanoverian dynasty, 42, 46, 55, 82
Hanover Square, London, 102
“Hans Sloane” plates, 137
Harcourt, Lord (George Simon), 166, 214, 216
Hardinge, Mrs. (in Kent), 105
Hardwick House, Hampstead Heath, 214, 215
Harley, Edward (2nd Earl of Oxford), 59
Harley, Lady Elizabeth, 132
Harley, Lady Harriot, 48, 59
Harley, Margaret Cavendish. See Portland, 2nd Duchess of
Harley Robert (1st Earl of Oxford), 43
Harrington, Lord, 68
Harris, Frances, 89
Harris, John, 163
Hartford, Lady, 80
Hartley, Mary, of Bath, 102, 110
Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire, 166
Hatchlands estate, Surrey, 60
Hauy, Abbé, 144
Haverfield, John, 163
Hawsted, Suffolk, 214, 215
Hayden, Ruth, 15, 29, 232, 239
Haymarket Theatre, 47
Hayter, Charles, 83
Head of an Old Woman (E. Wesley), 115
Heath, Richard, 238
Heckle, Augustin, 137
Heidegger, John James, 47
Herbert, Arabella, 51, 52, 53
Herbert, Hon. Mrs. (of Llanover), 234
Hertford, Countess of, 151
Hervey, Lord, 84
Highmore, Joseph, 38
Hill, Sir John, 34, 163, 188, 193
Historia plantarum ranorum (Martyn), 165
Historia stirpium indigenarum Helvetiae inchoata (Haller), 163
An History of Funguses Growing about Halifax (Bolton), 182
Hoare, William, 43
Hobbard, Mrs., 85
Hogarth, William, 4, 70, 114
Holland, 86
Hollingbourne Old Mill, Kent, 239
Hollymount, Down, Ireland, 123, 126, 153
Honig, Jan, 238
Hope-Vere, Lady Anne, née Vane, 59
Hortus Cliffortianus (Linnaeus), 190
Hortus Elthamensis (Dillenius), 199
Hortus Kewensis of 1768 (Hill), 34
Hortus Kewensis of 1789 (Aiton), 34, 36, 163, 165, 166, 167, 191, 195, 196, 197, 199, 201, 219
Hortus siccus (1st Duchess of Beaufort), 34, 35, 142
Hortus Uptonensis (Fothergill), 219
Houghton Hall, 72
Howard, Lady Caroline, 91
Howard, Sir George, 214, 216, 219
Howard, Henrietta, 50
Howard, Mary (Lady Andover), 4, 5, 113, 115, 124–25, 231
Hudson, Thomas, 124, 125
Hudson, William, 10, 159, 161, 181, 188
Hume, Sir Abram and Ly, 215
Hunt, John Dixon, 33, 140
Hunter, John, 59
Huntingdon, Lady, 70
Hurcott Mill, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, 238, 244, 245
Hurd, Bishop Richard, 60, 62
Hurst, Sarah, 96
Hyde, Anne, 43
Hyde, Catherine (Kitty). See Queensberry, Duchess of
Hyde, Henry. See Rochester, 2nd Earl of
Hyde, Jane Leveson-Gower (Lady Rochester), 43
Hyde family tree, 43, 45
Hyett, Benjamin, 33, 153
‘Hypericum Androsemum Tutsan’ (Ehret), 159
“Icones Fungorum circa Halifax Sponte Nascentis” (Bolton), 157, 182
‘Ilex aquifolium’ (Grey), 243
An Illustration of the Termini Botanici of Linnaeus (J. Miller), 190
Illustratio systematic sexualis Linnaei (J. Miller), 191
Inconveniences of a Crowded Drawing Room (G. Cruikshank), 86
India, 133, 220, 230, 242
Irish Manufactures, 6, 138
Islington garden, 143, 163, 214
Italianate Landscape (Bushe), 114
Jackson, William, 245
Jacobites, 40, 47
James II, King of England, 40, 43, 46, 55
James, Duke of York. See James II
Japan, 134
Japanned box, 133
Jefferson, Martha, 102
Jefferson, Thomas, 102
Jekyll, Gertrude, 166
Jenkinson, James, 188
Jennings, Miss, 214, 216, 219, 226, 233
Jenyns, Sarah. See Marlborough, Duchess of
Jervas, Charles, 43, 49
Johnson, R. Brimley, 15
Johnson, Samuel, 1, 59
Johnson, Thomas, 161
Jones, Barbara, 173–74
Jubb, William, 238
Kauffman, Angelica, 102
Keate, George, 10–11, 12
Kennerley, J., 83
Kensington Palace, London, 41, 84, 86, 156, 166
Kent, Duchess of, 150
Kent, William, 32, 33, 54, 150, 166
Kenwood, Hampstead Heath, London, 164, 211, 214, 216
Kerhervé, Alain, 16
Kew (Royal [Botanic] Gardens), London, 20, 29, 34, 36, 48, 56, 58, 59, 62, 132, 134, 141, 143, 153, 161, 163–66, 184, 191, 195, 196, 197, 201, 207, 208, 212, 215, 216, 219, 220, 228
Kick, Everhard, 35
Kielmansegg, Mme., 48
Kilburn, William, 161, 166, 193, 193
Killala, bishop of. See Clayton, Robert
Kippis, Andrew, 15
Kirk, Everhard, 219
Kit-Kat Club (Whig), 90
Klein, Lawrence, 136
Knapton, George, 119
Laboratory; or, School of Arts (Smith), 73
Landscape with a Blasted Tree (Goupy), 117
Landscape with “Le Tombeau de Latitia” (Bushe), 114
Landscape with Ruins (Donnellan), 115
Lansdowne, Lord (George Granville, uncle of Mary Delany), 2, 3, 42, 46, 150
Lansdowne, Lady (Mary Villiers Thynne Granville), 42
Lansdowne family, 54
Lansdowne, Battle of (1643), 42
Larpent, Anna, 102, 104
Latham, James, 55
Lawrence, Thomas, 12, 12, 13, 122
Lay, Samuel, 239
Lea, Harriet, 244, 245
Lee, Lady Elizabeth, 166
Lee, James, 20, 164, 188, 197, 215, 219, 220
Leeds, Duke of, 88
Lefebvre, Henri, 132
Legge, William. See Dartmouth, 2nd Earl of
Leicester House, London, 47, 86
Lely, Peter, 119
Leman, James, 75
Lennox, Lady Caroline, 74
Lens, Bernard, III, 118, 119, 120
Lens family, 124
Leptospermum, 195
Letters from Georgian Ireland (Day), 16
Letters from Mrs. Delany . . . to Mrs. Frances Hamilton, 15
Lettsom, J.C., 196
Lever, Ashton, 145
Leverian Museum, 143, 145
Leveson-Gower, Frances. See Dorset, 3rd Duchess of
Leveson-Gower, Gertrude. See Bedford, 4th Duchess of
Leveson-Gower, Jane. See Hyde, Jane Leveson-Gower
Leveson-Gower, John, 1st Earl Gower. See Gower, 1st Earl
Leveson-Gower family tree, 43
Lewisham, Lord, 214
Ley, Piet van Der, 238
L’Héritier de Brutelle, Charles Louis, 195, 197, 199
Lightfoot, Rev. John, 2, 9, 33, 36, 38, 59, 134, 135, 141, 143, 157, 159, 160, 161, 181, 183, 191, 214, 215
Lilly Library Manuscript Collections, Indiana University, 115
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 47
Linnaean botany, 2, 9, 10, 141, 147, 155, 157, 161, 181, 184, 188, 190, 190
Linnaeus, Carl, 36, 141, 188, 190, 193, 201, 220
Linnell, William and John, 33
Lipsedge, Karen, 37
Little Ivy Mill, Loose Valley, Kent, 238
Llanover, Lady (Augusta Hall, née Waddington), 1, 12, 15, 67, 112, 115, 120, 166, 176, 199, 224, 228, 229
Lock, Matthias, 137
Locke family, 62
London Botanic Garden, Lambeth, 161
London Evening Post, 91
London Foundling Hospital, 96
London General Evening Post, 208
London Tradesman (Campbell), 73
Longleat, Wiltshire, 4, 42, 58, 115, 125, 150, 155, 156, 204, 214
Loo, Jean-Baptiste van, 52, 53
Lost Demesnes (Malins and Knight of Glin), 16
Loudon, 4th Earl of (John Campbell), 73, 207
Loudon, Jane, 166
Louisa, Princess, 48, 81
Louis XIV, King of France, 50, 150
The Loves of the Flowers (Darwin), 13
Lower Brook Street, London, 4
Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, 20, 36, 56, 160, 163, 166, 207, 208, 210, 211, 212, 230
Lutyens, Edwin, 166
Luxborough, Lady, 151, 153, 155
Madrepora pileus [Herpetolitha limax] (Ellis & Solander), 180–81
Maingaud, Martin, 51
Making the Grand Figure: Lives and Possessions in Ireland, 1641–1770 (Barnard), 16
Malins, Edward, 16
The Mall and St. James’s Palace (Anonymous), 41
Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, 56, 164, 211, 216
Mantua, 28–29, 29–30, 66–79, 77, 81, 87, 87–88
Manwaring, Elizabeth (Mrs. Booth Grey), 224
Maori of New Zealand, 195
Maria Theresa of Austria, 53
Marlborough, 2nd Duke of (John Churchill), 42, 43, 89–90
Marlborough, 2nd Duchess of (Sarah Churchill), 42, 43, 50, 60, 81, 89, 107
Marquetry, 98, 98
Marshal, Alexander, 155, 226
Marsh Gentian with . . . a shell, a butterfly, a moth . . . (Bolton), 182
Martyn, John, 31, 165, 183
Mary II, Queen of England, 48, 81, 219
Mary, Princess, 57
Masham, Abigail, 50
Mason, Rev. William (Royal Chaplain), 59, 110, 188, 216
Masson, Francis, 196, 197, 219
Matlock House, Derbyshire, 152, 153
Mayer, Ralph, 231
Mayfair, London, 55
McCartney, Lady, 86
McKeon, Michael, 131, 136
Meen, Margaret, 36
Meikle, Desmond, 193
Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain Who Have Been Celebrated for Their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages (Ballard), 10
Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England (Elwood), 226
Mercier, Dorothy, 238
Mercier, Philip, 119
Mereworth Castle, 54
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 36, 156, 177
“Merlin’s Cave,” 33
Millenium Hall (S. Scott), 104
Miller, John, 190, 191
Miller, Philip, 136, 136–37, 139, 141, 144, 147, 165, 179, 191, 204
Mill Hill, 180, 204
Milton, John, 35, 139, 141
Miscellaneous Tracts (Stillingfleet), 161
Monck, General, 46
Monck, Henry, 55
Monck, Isabella, née Bentinck, 55
Monck family, 46, 48, 55
Monson, Lady Ann, 214, 220
Monson, George, 59
Montagu, Lady Anne, 81
Montagu, Lady Barbara, 104
Montagu, Elizabeth, 4, 5, 102, 104, 135–37, 141, 143
Montagu, Frederick, 216, 220
Montagu, George, 8, 220
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 58, 86
Montagu House, Portman Square, London, 102, 104
Moore, Lisa, 175
More, Hannah, 4, 60, 106, 107
Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers (Hayden), 15, 239
Mrs. Fiske’s Fashion and Court Elegance, 83
Munn, Lewis, 239
Muriel, John St. Clair, 15
National Gallery of Ireland, 122
Natural history, 130–49, 160–66, 172–87
The Natural History of Many Curious and Uncommon Zoophytes (Ellis), 180
Needlework. See Embroidery
Nelson, Charles, 228, 234
Nerquis Hall, Wales, 98
A New and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales (Paterson), 206
New Bath Guide (Anstey), 244–45
A New Drawing Book for ye Use of His Royal Highness ye Duke of Cumberland, Their Royal Highness the Princess Mary, and Princess Louisa, (Lens), 117, 118, 119
Newtonian astronomy, 48
New Zealand, 20, 195
Nivelon, François, 68
A Noble Art’ (Sloan), 33
Norbury Park, Surrey, 62
Norfolk House, London, 29, 30, 53, 56, 57, 73, 74, 86, 90–91, 152, 155, 204
North, Francis. See Guilford, 1st Earl of
North family, 58
The North-East view of Newark near Glocester (Delany), 112
Northend, Fulham, 48, 139, 172
Northumberland, 1st Duke of (Hugh Smithson), 31, 214, 215
A North View of the City of Bath (Lens), 118, 119
Nost, John van the younger, 54
“A Numerical Register of all His Majesty’s Leasehold Houses between St. James’s Street & Green Park” (Chambers), 57, 205
Nuneham, Lord and Lady. See Harcourt, Lord (George Simon)
Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, 166, 207, 216
Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty (Gilpin), 9–10
Ogborn, Miles, 132
“Old Pretender,” 46, 47
Old Testament, 107
Osnabrück, bishop of, 220
Opera of the Nobility, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 47
Ophir, Adi, 132
Ophrys apifera (Kilburn), 193
Opie, John, 1, 1, 4, 13, 40, 41, 110
Orange, William of, 51, 67, 156
Orkney, 1st Earl of (George Hamilton), 51
Osborne, Francis Godolphin (Marquis of Carmarthen), 88
Ossory, Lady, 158
Outram, Dorinda, 132
Oxford, 2nd Earl of (Edward Harley), 59
The Oxford English Dictionary, 138
Oxford Physic Garden, 134, 219
Pain, Miss Rachel, 95
Painshill gardens, Surrey 51
Painswick House, Gloucestershire, 153
Palissy, Bernard, 141
Palmer, William, 213
Pamela (Highmore), 38
Paper, manufacture and use of, 236–47, 237–45
A Paper Mill with the Men at Work (engraving), 237
“Paper mosaick” tools and techniques, 224–35, 228, 23033
Parker, Lady and Lord, 88
Parker, Rozsika, 99
Parkinson, John, 20, 34
Park Place at Henley on Thames, London, 164, 214, 216
Parminter, Misses Jane and Mary 104, 105
Paston, George, 15
Paterson, Daniel, 206
Paterson, William, 201
Paye, Richard Morton, 38, 38
A Peep at the Plenipo-!!! (I. Cruikshank), 86
Pelargonium quercifolium (Fréret), 195
‘Pelargonium subcoeruleum’ (Grey), 243
Pelling Place, Old Windsor, 105
Pembroke, Lady, 81
Pendarves, Alexander (1st husband of Mary Delany, d. 1726), 3, 40, 46–47, 50, 110, 113
Pendarves, Mary. See Delany, Mary Granville Pendarves
Penn family 207
Penn, Lady Juliana, 60
Pennant, Thomas, 181
Percival family, 55
“A Perspective View of the Grotto” (Serle), 139
“A Petition from Mrs. Delany’s Citron-Tree, To Her Grace The Duchess Dowager of Portland” (Keate), 10–11
Petre, 8th Baron, 193
Petty, Sophia Carteret. See Shelburne, Lady
Petty, William. See Shelburne, 2nd Earl of
“Phallus found at Bulstrode Nov. 12 1763” (Ehret), 157
‘Phallus impudicus’ (Phallus impudicus L.), 157, 181
Philips, Charles, 68
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 215
‘Phlox suaveolens’ (Grey), 165
Phoenix Mill, Alkmaar, North Holland, 238, 239
Pitcairn, Dr. William, 20, 143, 163, 197, 214, 215
A Plan of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark (Rocque), 46, 47
A Plan of Mr. Pope’s Garden (Serle), 139
“Plans of Different Roads from London to Luton Park 1767,” 208, 210
Plantae et papiliones rariores (Ehret), 175, 176, 177
Plants and Animals in a Landscape (Fetherstonhaugh), 155
Plas Newydd, Llangollen, Wales, 105
Pocket instrument case, 230
Pointon, Marcia, 132
‘Polemonium rubrum,’ 199
Polymita Picta, 183
Pomeroy, Mrs., 66
Pond, Arthur, 117, 119, 120
Pope, Alexander, 1, 8, 33, 139, 150, 153, 172
Port, Georgina. See Port, Mary Dewes
Port, Mary Dewes (grandniece of Mary Delany), 12, 44, 55, 58–59, 60, 62, 115, 134, 135, 141, 157, 164, 183, 204, 21 1, 212, 215, 224, 245
Portland, 1st Earl of (William Bentinck), 40, 48
Portland, 2nd Duke of (William Bentinck), 51, 179
Portland, 2nd Duchess of (Margaret Cavendish Harley), 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 20, 33, 36, 40, 41, 43, 46, 48, 50–51, 53–54, 55–56, 58, 61, 102, 110, 112, 119, 120, 121, 132, 134, 135, 140, 155, 156, 157–58, 159, 161, 165, 166, 172, 177, 179, 180–81, 182, 184, 191, 196, 201, 204–5, 211, 215, 224, 233
Portland Bill, Dorset, 38, 208
Portland Museum, 38, 134, 135, 136, 144
Portland Vase, 9, 60, 135
Portman Square, London, 143
Postlip Mill, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, 238
Powys, Mrs. Lybbe, 106, 107
Poyntz, Georgiana. See Spencer, Georgians Poyntz
Prest, John, 34
“Primitiae florae Novae Zelandiae” (Solander), 195
Puelle, Mlle., 2
Pultney, Mrs., 214
Quamoclit pennatum, erectum, floribus in thyrsum digestis, 199
“Queen of the Blues” (Elizabeth Montagu), 102. See also Bluestockings
Queensberry, Duchess of (Catherine ‘Kitty,’ née Hyde), 29, 31, 42, 43, 48, 53, 74, 84, 152, 156
Queen’s Lodge, Windsor, 220
The Queen’s Lodge, Windsor in 1786 (Ward), 15
Rabutin-Chantal, Marie de (marquise de Sévigné), 8
Racine, 139
Raman spectrophotometry, 227
Ramsay, Allan, 59, 60
Ranelagh gardens, Chelsea, 47
Ray, John, 141, 161
Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 199
Reeves, William, 231
Religion, 59
Remarks on Forest Scenery (Gilpin), 188
Remnans (Windsor, Berkshire), 150
Reni, Guido, 119
Repton, Humphry, 166
The Restoration, 40, 42, 46, 84
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 197, 234
Richardson, Joseph, 95
Richardson, Samuel, 15, 100
Richardson, Thomas, 37, 37
Rizzo, Betty, 104
Roads of England and Wales, 206, 206–8, 210, 213
Robertson, Mrs. Hannah, 96, 140, 141
Robertson’s Young Ladies School of Arts, The Strand, London, 96
Robins, Thomas the Elder, 33, 153, 155, 166
Rochester, 2nd Earl of (Henry Hyde), 43
Rockingham, Lady, 88
Rocque, John, 29, 46, 48
Rosa, Salvator, 117
Roscrow Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall, 4, 113
Rossier, Miss, 95
Rousham, Oxfordshire, 54
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 59
Rowlandson, Thomas, 87
Royal Academy of Music, London, 47
Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris, 144
Royal Botanic Gardens. see Kew
Royal Dublin Society, 55
The Royal Gardens of Richmond and Kew (Richardson), 37
Rubens, Peter Paul, 119
Rubus fruticosus 209
The Rudiments of Genteel Behavior (Nivelon), 68, 69
Russell, John. See Bedford, 4th Duke of, Viceroy of Ireland
Ryder, Dudley, 85
Sackville-West, Vita, 166
St. Alban’s Street house, Windsor, 61, 62
St. Bartholemew’s Hospital, London, 197
St. James Chapel, London, 54, 59, 62
St. James Palace, London, 29, 38, 41, 41, 42, 46, 53, 57, 75, 85, 86, 143, 201, 204, 205, 211, 215, 216, 224
St. James Square, London, 56, 57, 58
St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, 98
Sandby Paul, 124
Sandford, Sally Chapone (goddaughter of Mary Delany), 56, 60, 119, 138, 154, 216
Saunderland, Samuel, 84
Savile, Miss Gertrude, 102
Sayer, Fanny, 215
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), 227
Scarbrough, Lady, 89, 152
Schoen, H.W., 238
Scholes, Jenny, 95
Scotland and the Hebrides, 181
Scott, Sarah, 104
Scudéry, Mlle de, 50, 51
Seamstresses and sewing, 96, 98
“Sensibility: An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. Boscawen” (More), 4
Serle, John, 139, 139
Sertum Anglicum (L’Héritier), 197, 199
Shackleton, Elizabeth, 132
Shannon, Lord and Lady, 81
Shapin, Steven, 132
Sharp, Robert, 178
Sharp, William, 239
Shelburne, 2nd Earl of, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne (William Petty), 55
Shelburne, Lady (Sophia Carteret Petty), 60
Shell Gallery, A la Ronde, Devon, 104, 105
Shellwork, 4, 8, 102, 104–5, 110, 134–41, 172–84, 180, 18283
Shenstone, William, 151, 153, 155
Sherard, William, 219
Sheraton, Thomas, 105
Sheridan, Thomas, 8
Sidney, Sir Philip, 50
Simpling Day or “General Herbarizing” (botanical excursions), 161
Sixteen Discourses (P. Delany), 54
Slater, Thomas, 236
Sloane, Sir Hans, 35, 137, 137, 140, 219
Smelt, Leonard, 60, 62
Smith, Daniel, 178
Smith, Hannah, 83
Smith, James Edward, 166
Smithson, Hugh. see Northumberland, 1st Duke of
Snuffbox, 174
Society of Apothecaries, 161
Soho Square, London, 132, 141
Solander, Daniel Carlsson, 2, 9, 20, 59, 141, 180, 183, 191, 191, 195, 196, 197, 199, 204, 215, 220, 234
Somerset, Mary Capel. See Beaufort, 1st Duchess of
Somerset House on the Thames, London, 29, 46, 47, 49, 49, 57
Sowerby, James, 161, 167, 196
Species Plantarum (Linnaeus), 36, 188, 193
Specimens of Rare and Beautiful Needlework, Designed and Executed by Mrs. Delany and Her Friend the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton, 15, 67, 72
The Spectator, 106, 150
Spence, Joseph, 139, 153
Spencer, Georgiana Poyntz, 42, 56, 75
Spencer, Hon. John, 42, 43, 56, 75
Spencer, Mrs. John (Georgina Carteret). See Cowper, Lady
Spencer, Viscount John (later Viscount Althorp and 1st Earl Spencer), 42
Spencer, Lady Lavinia, 85
Spencer, Lady Sarah, 86
Spencer House, Green Park, London, 42, 56
Spenser, Edmund, 50, 150, 166
Spitalfields, 75
Spring Gardens house, London, 48, 56
Squerries Court, Kent, 101
Stafford, Marquis of, 43
Stamford, 5th Earl of (George Grey), 201
Stamford, Dowager Countess of (Mary Grey), 84, 201, 224
Stamford family, 215
Stanley, Lady Anne, née Granville, 3, 46
Stanley, Sir John, 3, 46, 139
Stanley, Sir Thomas, 46
Stanley family, 54
Stationers of London, 238
Stella, 8
Stewart, Susan, 134
Stillingfleet, Benjamin, 161
Stirpes novae aut minus cognitae (L’Héritier), 199
Stoke Place, Buckinghamshire, 216, 219
Stoke Poges, 214
Stomacher, 72, 73, 88, 175, 175, 177, 182
Stone, Sarah, 145
Stowe, 150
Strafford, Countess of (Anne), 81, 86, 89
Strafford, Earl of, 81, 89
Strathmore, Countess of (Mary Eleanor Bowes), 201
Strathmore, Lord, 201
Strawberry Hill, Richmond upon Thames, London, 1, 131, 166, 216, 220
“Strelitzia reginae” (Sowerby), 166, 167
Stuart, James, 130, 131
Stuart, John (Lord Bute). See Bute, 3rd Earl of
Stuart, Lady Louisa, 85
Stuart, Princess Anne, 43
Stuart, Princess Mary, 43
Stuart family, 46, 82
Stuart workboxes, 98
Stubbes, George, 120
Study of English Wildflowers of Field and Wood (Ehret), 158, 159
Styles, John, 16, 31, 132
Sunderland, 3rd Earl of (Charles), 49
Sunderland, 4th Earl, 42
Sunderland, Lady (Judith Tichborne), 48–49, 87, 114, 133, 134
Surinam, 177
Sutherland, Earl and Countess of, 86–87
Swift, Jonathan, 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 68, 110, 114, 117, 139
Swiftbrook Paper Mill, Saggart, Dublin, 239
Swiss Alps, 163
Sydney, Lady, 86
Sylvester, Joshuah, 150
Symonds, Emily Morse, 15
Syon House, Northumberland, 31, 204, 207, 214, 215
Systema naturae (Linnaeus), 193, 201
Tabella of Linnaeus’s Sexual System (Ehret), 190
Tahiti, 141
Talbot, Catherine, 120
Talman, John, 130, 131
Tasso, 50
Taylor, Clement, 239
Tea Party at, Lord Harrington’s House, St. James’s (C. Philips), 68
Temple of Fancy, Rathbone Place, London, 96, 97
Ten Miles Round London (Rocque), 48, 49
Textiles, 30–31
Thacker, Robert, 150
The Thames from the Terrace of Somerset House, Looking toward Westminster (Canaletto), 49
Thatched House Court, London, 56, 57, 204, 205, 208
‘Thea Thee Tree’ (Ehret), 159
Theatrum Botanicum, The Theater of Plantes: An Universall and Compleate Herball (Parkinson), 20, 34
Thorndon Hall, Essex, 193
Thrale, Hester, 87
Thunberg, Carl Peter, 188, 201, 220
Thynne, Louisa Granville (Lady Weymouth), 53, 58, 163
Thynne, Thomas. See Weymouth, Viscount
Tichborne, Judith. See Sunderland, Lady
Tighe, Mr., 155
Tillotson, Dr., 102
The Times, 88, 91
Toasting Muffins, Vide Royal Breakfast (Gillray), 82
Tour, Quentin de la, 119
Tower of London, 2, 100
Trevelyan, G.M., 84
Trew, Christoph Jacob, 137, 160, 204
Tribune at Strawberry Hill (Carter), 130, 131
Tsayama, Reikichi, 234
Tufton, Mary. See Gower, Dowanger Countess
Tull, Betty, 102, 104
Turkey Mill, Boxley Maidstone, Kent, 238
Twelve Months of Flowers: From the Collection of Robt. Furber, Gardiner at Kensington (Furber), 156
“Twenty-Five Miles Round London” (Palmer), 212, 213
Twenty-five New Plants (Hill), 34
Twickenham gardens and grotto, London, 8, 32, 33, 139, 172
Twinrocker Handmade Paper, Brookston, Indiana, 231
Une épistolière anglaise du XVIIIe siècle: Mary Delany, 1700–1788 (Kerhervé), 16
Universal Architecture . . . Original Designs of Grottos (Wright), 140
The Universal Conchologist (Martyn), 183
The Universal Magazine, 237
University of Göttingen, 59
Up Mills, South Stoneham, Hampshire, 239
Upton, Essex, 214, 215
Usher family, 55
Van Gerrevinck family, 238
Vauxhall gardens, London, 47
Veblen, Thorstein, 94
The Vegetable System (Hill), 188
Vernon, Caroline, 60
Vertue, George, 110, 125
Vesey, Mrs., 60, 102, 154
Victoria, Queen of England, 234
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 30
Villiers, Lady Mary, 91
Viney, Miss H., 115
Vineyard Nursery (Hammersmith), 166, 197, 215, 219
Vulliamy, C.E., 15
Vyne, Hampshire, 102
Waistcoat, man’s, 88, 90, 101
Waller, Richard, 226
Wallpaper, Chinese, 31
Walpole, Horace (4th Earl of Oxford), 1, 13, 94, 110, 131, 154–55, 158, 161, 166, 188, 216, 220, 234
Walpole, Lady, 156
Walpole, Robert, 50, 53, 72
Walsingham, Hon. Mrs., 40, 110
Ward, Henrietta, 14, 15, 115
Warde, Mary, 101
War of the Austrian Succession, 53
Weddell, Mrs., 214
Welbeck, Nottinghamshire, 9, 202
Wellesbourne estate, Warwickshire, 58, 207, 212, 214, 215, 216
Wellesley, Francis, 122
Wentworth, Peter, 81, 89
Wesley, Elizabeth, 115
Wesley, John, 1
Wesley family, 4, 114
West Indies, 132, 139, 180, 197
Westmoreland, Earl of, 54
Westmoreland, Lady, 54
West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, 208
Weymouth, 1st Viscount (Thomas Thynne), 42
Weymouth, 2nd Viscount (Thomas Thynne), 53
Weymouth, 3rd Viscount (Thomas Thynne, later 1st Marquis of Bath), 41, 58
Weymouth, 3rd Viscountess (Elizabeth Thynne, née Bentinck), 49, 58, 59, 69, 115, 143, 157, 163, 175, 204
Weymouth, Dorset, 20, 38, 159, 160, 166, 205, 208, 214, 220
Weymouth, Lady. See Thynne, Louisa Granville
Whatman, James the Elder, 238
Whatman, James the Younger, 239
Whatman paper, 245
White, Gilbert, 163
Whitehall, London, 3, 46, 57, 86, 112, 204
Whitehead, Miss, 84
Wilkes, Wettenhall, 102
William III, King of England, 40, 46, 48, 55, 81, 90, 219
Williams, Robert, 239
Willoughby de Broke, Lady (Louisa North), 58, 164, 215
Willoughby de Broke, Lord, 156
Wimbledon Park, Surrey, 130, 131, 216
Windsor Castle, 14, 15, 38, 48, 56, 60, 166, 214, 220, 234
Withers, Charles, 132
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 107
Woman with Basket or Coracle (Lady Andover), 125
Woollett, William, 36
Workbag, embroidered, 75
Workboxes, 9799
Worsley, Frances, 49
Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, 81
Wright, Mrs. Phoebe, 74
Wright, Thomas, 33, 140, 150
Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, 33, 58, 152, 153, 159, 214
Yale Center for British Art, 225
Yarmouth, Countess of, 42
Yealand, Lancashire, 188
Yorke, Lady Elizabeth, 86
Yorke, Philip and Charles, 120
The Young Ladies School of Arts (Robertson), 96
“Yucca aloifolia” (Ehret), 190
Zincke, Christian Friedrich, 4, 5, 114
Zoffany, John, 61, 191
Zonen, 238