Record details

• ISBN: 9780300142792
• ISBN: 030014279X
• Physical Description: xi, 283 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
• Publisher: New Haven : Yale Center for British Art ; [2009]
• Copyright: ©2009

Content descriptions

General Note:

Publication to accompany an exhibition organised by the Yale Center for British Art in association with Sir John Soane's Museum, London, which will be on view at the Yale Center for British Art, Sept. 24, 2009-Jan 3, 2010 and at Sir John Soane's Museum, Feb. 18-May 1, 2010.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Mrs. Delany & the court / Clarissa Campbell-Orr -- Mary Delany's embroidered court dress / Clare Browne -- Dressing for court : sartorial politics & fashion news in the age of Mary Delany / Hannah Greig -- The theory & practice of female accomplishment / Amanda Vickery -- Mrs. Delany's paintings & drawings : adorning Aspasia's closet / Kim Sloan -- Mary Delany : epistolary utterances, cabinet spaces, & natural history / Maria Zytaruk -- Mrs. Delany's circles of cutting & embroidering in home & garden / Mark Laird -- Mrs. Delany's natural history & zoological activities : "a beautiful mixture of pretty objects" / Janice Neri -- Novelty in nomenclature : the botanical horizons of Mary Delany / John Edmondson -- A progress in plants : Mrs. Delany's botanical sources / Lisa Ford -- The "paper mosaick" practice of Mrs. Delany & her circle / Kohleen Reeder -- An intimate and intricate mosaic : Mary Delany & her use of paper / Peter Bower.

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Subject:

Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788 > Knowledge and learning > Exhibitions.
Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788 > Friends and associates > Exhibitions.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century > Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.