Primula Auricula (Pentandria Mopnogynia), from an album (Vol.VII, 97); Bear's Ear. 1777 Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, and with leaf sample, on black ink background
“I have invented a new way of imitating flowers,” Mary Delany, a 72-year-old widow wrote to her niece in 1772 from the grand home where she was a frequent guest, having just captured her hostess' geranium's likeness, by collaging cut paper in a nearly identical shade.
Sakura és una bossa tot bag pràctic, còmode i amb l'exclusivitat que SUMI aporta a totes les peces.El Tote bag Sakura està fet a mà amb una preciosa tela japonesa vellutada de color negre. D'una banda, la serigrafia en plata d'una Geisha japonesa i de l'altra, la tela de flors blanques sobre fons negre. Totes dues adornades amb la serigrafia identificativa de SUMI que trenca totalment amb la tradició. Les nanses i el tirador són de pell de flor de vaqueta de color fosc i té una butxaca més petita al seu interior.Les bosses tote bag de SUMI són peces úniques, fetes amb materials recuperats, amb processos totalment artesanals i sostenibles i acabats a mà.Les bosses tote bag revelen l'essència de SUMI. La tradició de la tela antiga, originària del Japó, transcendeix la cultura moderna a través del toc de creativitat en forma de serigrafia metal·litzada.Totes les teles de les bosses són originàries de Kyoto, Japó, on pots recórrer un dels carrers tèxtils més importants i reconeguts del país asiàtic, el carrer Nippori.Tècnica de Serigrafia:Per pintar el Sakura hem utilitzat un sistema de reserva amb cinta adhesiva que permet fer la forma que es vol donar a la pintura geomètrica.Dimensions:-tote bag mida gran 44 x 41 x 15 cm-butxaca al costat intern-anses de pell de 85 cm
Flora Delanica #5: Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus) by Becky Brown The common sunflowers are native to the Americas. Mary Delany's work reflects her lifelong interest in natural history. Collecting specimens whether botany or seas shells was a fashionable hobby at which she excelled. One of Mary's mosaic grottoes Friends paid many compliments to Mary Granville Pendarves Delany, among them that she liked to keep busy. Throughout her life she had energy and enthusiasm for several large-scale artistic projects including the encyclopedic paper mosaick albums she began in her seventies---her Flora Delanica. In her thirties the young widow took up grotto building on a rather grand scale. Mary Pendarves spent summer, 1732 with the Donnellen sisters in Killala along the North Atlantic shore. Her inspiration was a seaside vacation she and longtime friend Anne Donnellen took while visiting Anne's sister Catherine in Ireland. Catherine was married to Robert Clayton, Protestant Bishop of Killala on the North Atlantic coast. Anne Donnellen (ca.1700-1762) suggested the extended visit trip to Ireland, perhaps to divert Mary after an unhappy romance. Shell-mosaic, Margrave Grotto, England Collecting shells was a mania of the time. Gathering natural history along the shore combined with a Christian tradition of decorating a cave or grotto with shells to symbolize a pilgrimage to St. James's shrine in Spain. For centuries pilgrims collected scallop shells to commemorate their visit to Santiago de Compostela. Not far from the Clayton's home was a hill on which Mary and friends were "erecting a grotto": "On the summit of the hill is a natural grotto, with seats in it that will hold four people. We go every morning at seven o’clock to that place to adorn it with shells – the Bishop has a large collection of very fine ones; [Anne] and I are the engineers, the men fetch and carry for us what we want, and think themselves highly honoured." Mary closed this letter to her sister: "I am now going to build a pyramid for the grotto." St. James, the patron of shell collectors, in Pope's Grotto, Twickenham Back in England a few years later Mary visited the famous grotto built by poet Alexander Pope, gathering inspiration we can assume. She spent many of her summers as guest of her close friend Margaret Duchess of Portland at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire, where she worked on a grotto. The Grotto in the Park at Bulstrode 1781 by S.H. Grimm, British Museum After she married Patrick Delany and returned to Ireland, Mary decorated their house in Dublin with shell work, creating a mosaic in the building's chapel. "I go on making shell flowers for the ceiling of the chapel. I have made 86 large flowers and about 30 small ones." Mary in 1750 In her 1953 book Follies and Grottoes, Barbara Jones gives Mary Delany just a paragraph or two. "She also designed and made or advised on a number of grottoes, notably a famous one at Bulstrode (now demolished) [pictured above] and her amusing letters often refer to follies: all the folly and grotto builders knew one another, and constantly visited and assessed one another's works----the references are innumerable.....In 1752 she gave a ball with one room decorated as a wood with a grotto...." Mary helped her sister Anne Dewes with shellwork interior decoration at her home Wellesbourne Hall. In the mid 1750s she advised Anne's neighbors the Mordaunt sisters at Walton, Warwickshire on the mosaics in their octagonal bathhouse. The shell work in the Mordaunts' octagonal bathhouse has been restored. Mary's vision for the room was shell stalactites or icicles looking as if they'd been placed there by "an invisible sea nymph." You can stay in the octagonal room. The Bath House near Stratford on Avon is now a Landmark Trust site. https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/search-and-book/properties/the-bath-house-4920/#Overview Sunflower by Barbara Brackman Mary in her thirties, forties and fifties apparently spent many hours on scaffolds cementing shells to windows and ceilings. Looking at this mid-life work we can see the roots of the paper mosaics she created in her old age. "Imagine starting your life's work at 72," begins Molly Peacock's book on Mary Delany, a common view of one aspect of Mary's work as an artist that diminishes all that went before. To see the original Helianthus annus go to the blog Late Bloomer and scroll down: https://blog.britishmuseum.org/late-bloomer-the-exquisite-craft-of-mary-delany/ The Block #5 Sunflower Applique on the diagonal to an square cut 10-1/2" or on the vertical center of a rectangle cut 9-1/2" x 12-1/2". One Way to Print the Pattern: Create a word file or a new empty JPG file that is 8-1/2" x 11". Click on the image above. Right click on it and save it to your file. Print that file out 8-1/2" x 11". Note the inch square block for reference. Adjust the printed page size if necessary. Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus) by Nan Phillips in wool applique. A Little More Mary Delany A bearded iris---hybrid. Iris Squalens Dingy flower de Luce. Tall Bearded Iris https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/333633001 In 1732 on her first trip to Ireland Mary wrote about her pleasure in shell collecting with four friends: "We took off in a boat and went to a shore about a mile off to gather shells, where we found a vast variety of beauties. We were very merry in our work...." Sunflower by Ilyse Moore, wool on linen Further Reading & Viewing Lucy Worsley is portraying Mary Pendarves Delany here in her new British series A Very British Romance. That's Mr. Pendarves back there, I believe. Streaming now on PBS stations: https://www.pbs.org/show/very-british-romance-lucy-worsley/ Poet Molly Peacock wrote a reflection on Mary Delany's life in 2011: The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72. See a preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Paper_Garden/4sgI9qkBuBAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=molly+peacock+mary+delany&printsec=frontcover More about Irish grottoes and Mary Delany's role in the gardening fashion in James Howley & Roberto D'Ussy's The Follies and Garden Buildings of Ireland https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Follies_and_Garden_Buildings_of_Irel/xrwOGidTbKgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=delany Mary's close friend Margaret Cavendish Bentinck Duchess of Portland was the queen of shell collecting. Read Beth Fowkes Tobin's 2014 book: The Duchess's Shells: Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook's Discoveries. Barbara Jones, Follies and Grottoes, (1953 & 1974).
Today marks the anniversary of the nativity (as opposed to the death by beheading, or decollation) of one of the most important medieval saints, St. John the Baptist. The devout veneration of the Saint determined the observation of his feast day, which was “summer Christmas”, with fire in the fields (the pre-Christian holdover), three masses, …
This is the story of an artist who didn’t begin her art till after her husband passed and she had free time on her hands. She was 71 and created Paper Mosaik botanical specimens: Mary Delany.
Mary Delany later Mary Pendarves was an English artist, letter-writer, and bluestocking, known for her "paper-mosaicks" and botanic drawing, needlework and her ...
Known for her scientific precision, artist Mary Delany labeled all 985 of her collages that recreate plants and flowers.
This is the story of an artist who didn’t begin her art till after her husband passed and she had free time on her hands. She was 71 and created Paper Mosaik botanical specimens: Mary Delany.
Mary Delany later Mary Pendarves was an English artist, letter-writer, and bluestocking, known for her "paper-mosaicks" and botanic drawing, needlework and her ...
Gnaphalium Margaretaceum, from an album (Vol.X, 32); American Cudweed. 1782 Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background
Всю неделю собираем гербарий Вторник - Barbara Regina Dietzsch
There are several prettinesses I can’t explain to you — little wild walks, private seats, and lovely prospects… - Mary Delany
This is the story of an artist who didn’t begin her art till after her husband passed and she had free time on her hands. She was 71 and created Paper Mosaik botanical specimens: Mary Delany.
Mesembryanthemum Linguiforme, from an album (Vol.X, 44); var Sculpatrum, Broad tongue-leav'd Fig Marigold. 1781 Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background
Known for her scientific precision, artist Mary Delany labeled all 985 of her collages that recreate plants and flowers.
This is the story of an artist who didn’t begin her art till after her husband passed and she had free time on her hands. She was 71 and created Paper Mosaik botanical specimens: Mary Delany.
