https://aaeportal.com/?id=110188
Please wait while we complete your search...
Please wait while we complete your search...
Yale University Press
Accessibility Options
AA
Site search
  • Return to previous
  • Page

Specimen of Gomphocarpus fruticosus

Image details
Description: Specimen of Gomphocarpus fruticosus
Related content: Chapters (2) Images (8)

Select a chapter below to view this image within the text.


Free
Description: A Natural History of English Gardening: 1650–1800
It has long been known that Mary Somerset (née Capel), duchess of Beaufort (1630–1715), was a pre-eminent collector and patron of horticultural science (pl. 60).For the best survey of the duchess and collecting, see Douglas Chambers, ‘ “Storys of Plants”: The Assembling of Mary Capel Somerset’s Botanical Collection at Badminton’, Journal of the History of Collections, IX/1 (1997), 49–60. An excellent account of the duchess’s legacy through her hortus siccus is given in J. E. Dandy, ed., The Sloane Herbarium (London: Natural History Museum, 1958), 209–15. In the Catalogus plantarum of 1730 she was singled out for her ‘Collection . . . of the tender Exotick Plants’ in ‘those famous Gardens of Badmington [sic...
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Related print edition pages: pp.65-122
Description: Mrs. Delany and her Circle
The twelve essays in Mrs. Delany and her Circle range widely but all contribute to an understanding of the mantua petticoat representing the first half of Mary’s life, and the “paper mosaicks” that are the crowning achievement of the second. In planning the exhibition, we...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.29-38
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00085.006

Note: Some of the images of artworks presented on this platform were not sourced from the original print publication. However, in order to preserve the scholarly record of the print publication, all original image captions and credit lines have been retained on the platform. Learn more about our image policies.

Loading image