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The paper garden : an artist [begins her life´s work] at 72 / Molly Peacock

By:

Peacock, Molly, , 1947-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury , 2011, c2010Edition: First U.S. edDescription: 397 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 cmISBN:

9781608195237

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

702.812 PEA

LOC classification:

BP605.S4 Y54 1986

Summary: Intelligent and well read, a quintessential member of the British aristocracy but with a mind of her own, Mary Granville Pendarves Delany (1700-1788) was a late bloomer. Born to a noble family of moderate fortune, she was married, first at 17 to a much older, drunken aristocrat, in midlife, more happily, she married a loving Irish clergyman. Widowed, she began at age 72 her remarkable art of cutting and creating the 985 floral "mosaicks" as she termed them-a precursor to collage. Delany rubbed elbows with Handel, Hogarth, Jonathan Swift, King George III, and Queen Charlotte. But Delany was even more fortunate to come under the wing of a duchess who brought the cutting work to the attention of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Horace Walpole. Poet Peacock's (The Second Blush) hymn to Delany weaves in her own life and discovery of her subject and of course all the viewings of those astonishing orchid "mosaicks."

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	702.812 PEA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		052694

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"Originally published in Canada in 2010 as The paper garden: Mrs. Delany begins her life's work at 72 by McClelland & Steward Ltd."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intelligent and well read, a quintessential member of the British aristocracy but with a mind of her own, Mary Granville Pendarves Delany (1700-1788) was a late bloomer. Born to a noble family of moderate fortune, she was married, first at 17 to a much older, drunken aristocrat, in midlife, more happily, she married a loving Irish clergyman. Widowed, she began at age 72 her remarkable art of cutting and creating the 985 floral "mosaicks" as she termed them-a precursor to collage. Delany rubbed elbows with Handel, Hogarth, Jonathan Swift, King George III, and Queen Charlotte. But Delany was even more fortunate to come under the wing of a duchess who brought the cutting work to the attention of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Horace Walpole. Poet Peacock's (The Second Blush) hymn to Delany weaves in her own life and discovery of her subject and of course all the viewings of those astonishing orchid "mosaicks."

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