Peacock, M. The Paper Garden. Mrs. Delany {Begins Her Life’s Work} at 72. 1st. UK. Ed. Pub. Bloomsbury. 2011
pp.397 with col. illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. with a hint of sunning to spine.
After an eventful life in Georgian society Mrs. Delany, at the age of 72, picked up a pair of scissors and created a new art form: the mixed media collage and in so doing, created 985 botanically correct cut-paper flowers which are now housed in the British Museum.
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