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http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ycba.mss.0065
Classification:
Archives & Manuscripts
Notes:
"Little is known about Booth Grey that pertains to his collection of botanical paper collages. An inscription on the original pastedown of the album that once held these collages -- '98 Plants done by the Honble. Booth Grey' -- is the only clue we have to who made them ... Grey was the younger son of the Countess of Stamford, and his older brother was married to the Duchess of Portland's daughter Henrietta. In all likelihood, then, he would have been a visitor at Bulstrode and it is believed that he was part of Mrs. Delany's circle of acquaintances. He is almost certainly the same 'Mr. B Grey' that gave Mrs. Delany plant specimens for at least four of her paper mosaics, all of which were made at her home at St. James's Place between 1777 and 1779. Booth Grey was a member of parliament, representing Leicester from 1768 to 1784. He was educated at Cambridge, lived at Budworth Magna ... and he married Elizabeth Manwaring in 1782. Like other men of his social class, he seems to have been interested in horticulture and the arts ..."--Reeder.
Exhibition History:
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
Subject Terms:
Grey, Booth, 1740-1802. | Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788. | Botanical illustration -- Great Britain. | Flowers -- Pictorial works. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.