Figure 102: Mary Delany, Delville fireside 27 Fey 1750/51, 1750–51,...

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Description: Delville fireside 27 Feby 1750/51

TitleDelville fireside 27 Feby 1750/51

Creator nameDelany, Mary Granville

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1750–1751

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsGraphite

DimensionsUnknown

LocationThe Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsDrawing, BritishArtists--Portraits

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

Kim Sloan

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...

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Mark Laird (Editor), Alicia Weisberg-Roberts (Editor)

PublisherYale Center for British Art

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.110-128

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00085.011

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19563&redirecttoanchor=45008

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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