大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 5月14日 18時30分

Artist Mary Delany was born #onthisday in 1700. Mary Delany began making paper collages, or ‘mosaicks' as she called them, at the age of 72. The idea came to her while staying with her companion, Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, in Buckinghamshire. She had noticed the similarity of colour between a geranium and a piece of red paper that was on her bedside table. Taking up her scissors she imitated the petals. Upon entering the room, the duchess mistook them for real: 'Her approbation was such a sanction to my undertaking... and gave me courage to go on with confidence'. Delany later wrote that her work was intended as an imitation of a ‘hortus siccus’ or collection of dried flowers.
Commonly called the milk-and-wine lily, the Asphodil Lily originated in tropical Asia and East Africa and was introduced to Britain in around 1770. An inscription on the back of the collage indicates that the flower was presented to Delany by Lord Rockingham, a former Prime Minister.
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