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020			_a9781608195237
050	0	0	_aBP605.S4 _bY54 1986
082	0	0	_a702.812 PEA
100	0		_aPeacock, Molly _d, 1947-
245	1	4	_aThe paper garden _b: an artist [begins her life´s work] at 72 _c/ Molly Peacock
250			_aFirst U.S. ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Bloomsbury _c, 2011, c2010
300			_a397 p. _b: ill. (chiefly col.) _c; 21 cm.
500			_a"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.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIntelligent 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."
600	1	4	_aDelany _c, Mrs _q(Mary) _d, 1700-1788.
650		4	_aArtists _v--Biography
650		4	_aCollage
650		4	_aWomen _z--England _v--Biography
650		4	_aCreative ability
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