Mrs. Delany & her circle / edited by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts.
Alternate Title(s):
Mrs. Delany and her circle
Published / Created:
New Haven : Yale Center for British Art ; 2009.London : Sir John Soane's Museum in association with Yale University Press, 2009.
Physical Description:
xi, 283 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-266) and index.
Contents:
Directors' foreword / Amy Meyers and Tim Knox -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Alicia Weisberg-Roberts and Mark Laird -- 1. Mrs. Delany and the court / Clarissa Campbell-Orr -- 2. Mary Delany's embroidered court dress / Clare Browne -- 3. Dressing for court : sartorial politics and fashion news in the age of Mary Delany / Hannah Greig -- 4. The theory and practice of female accomplishment / Amanda Vickery -- 5. Adorning Aspasia's closet : Mrs. Delany's paintings and drawings / Kim Sloane -- 6. Mary Delany : epistolary utterances, cabinet spaces, and material forms of natural history / Maria Zytaruk -- 7. Seasonality, circulation, and Mrs. Delany's landscape gardening circle / Mark Laird -- 8. "A beautiful mixture of pretty objects" : Mrs. Delany's natural history and zoological activities / Janice Neri -- 9. Novelty in nomenclature : the botanical horizons of Mary Delany / John Edmondson -- 10. A progress in plants : Mrs. Delany's botanical circle / Lisa Ford -- 11. The practice of 'paper mosaick' by Mrs. Delany and her circle / Kohleen Reeder -- 12. An intimate and intricate mosaic : Mary Delany and her use of paper / Peter Bower.
Subject Terms:
Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788 -- Knowledge and learning. | Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788 -- Friends and associates. | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Contributors:
Laird, Mark. | Weisberg-Roberts, Alicia. | Yale Center for British Art. | Sir John Soane's Museum. | Fitzwilliam Museum.