Specimens of rare and beautiful needlework / designed and executed by Mrs. Delany and her friend the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton ; photographed from the originals in the possession of Lady Hall of Llanover.

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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788, Specimens of rare and beautiful needlework , [approximately 1860]

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Creator:: Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
Title(s):: Specimens of rare and beautiful needlework / designed and executed by Mrs. Delany and her friend the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton ; photographed from the originals in the possession of Lady Hall of Llanover.
Published/Created:: [London] : Published by Dickinson Bros., 114 New Bond Street, [approximately 1860]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 37 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2017 10
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13205245
Classification:: Books
Notes:: "In the present publication, for the first time, photography is applied to the reproduction of specimens of needlework."--Vol. [1], page [1].
Cover title.
Issued in two parts, each containing [5] leaves of plates with descriptive letterpress text. Additional parts were contemplated but never published.
Vol. [1]: [12] pages, [5] leaves of plates; v. [2]: [10] pages, [5] leaves of plates.
The plates are mounted photographs (albumen prints) reproducing specimens of embroidery. Plates [7] and [10] each consist of 2 mounted prints.
Mrs. Delany & her circle, edited by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, pages 15, 66, 72-73
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original printed wrappers, with red cloth back (2 volumes).
Subject Terms:: Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788.
Embroidery -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Hamilton, Dorothea, active 18th century.
Llanover, Augusta Hall, Baroness, 1802–1896 -- Art collections.
Form/Genre:: Albumen prints.
Photographs.
Contributors:: Hamilton, Dorothea, active 18th century.
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1. Group of poppies ... designed by Mrs. Delany
2. Summer cover of Mrs. Delany's drawing-room chairs
3. Group of spring flowers ... by Mrs. Hamilton
4. Companion to no. 3
5. Basket of flowers ... by Mrs. Hamilton.
6. Group of poppies ... companion to the first plate
7. Two groups ... thistle with pink convolvulus ... white rose ... on a petticoat of black satin ... by Mrs. Delany
8. Double lilac anemone and yellow jessamine (from the same petticoat)
9. Purple auricula and scarlet geranium (from the same petticoat)
10. Two stomachers, the one designed and embroidered by Mrs. Delany, the other painted ... by ... Mrs. Hamilton.

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