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Thea Viridis (Polyandria Monogynia), from an album (Vol. IX, 55); Green Tea. 1771. Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background. 322 × 211 mm (1897,0505.856). The Flora Delanica were nearly 1000 cut-paper collages of plants created by Mary Delany (1700–88) between 1771 and 1782, presented in ten albums to the British Museum by her descendant Lady Llanover in 1897 (register numbers 1897,0505.1 to 974)
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Related in Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts (eds.), Mrs Delany & Her Circle (New Haven and London, 2009), p. 225, citing passage from Llanover, Lady Augusta Waddington Hall (ed.), The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany (London, 1861–2; 6 vols in 2 series), ser. II, vol. 2: 215; see also Ruth Hayden, Mrs Delany and Her Flower Collages, 2nd ed. (London: British Museum, 1992).
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Cited in ‘Introduction’, Laird & Weisberg-Roberts, Mrs Delany, 2009, p. 13.
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Sloan, K. (2016). The Lives of Mrs Delany’s Paper Plants. In: Craciun, A., Schaffer, S. (eds) The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44379-3_4
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