Figure 19: Henry Fuseli, Flora Attired by the Elements, 1791, graphite on...

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Description: Flora Attired by the Elements

TitleFlora Attired by the Elements

Creator nameFuseli, Henry

Creator nationality/cultureSwiss

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1791

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsGraphite on laid paper

Dimensions8 3/4 × 6 3/8 in. (22.2 × 16.2 cm)

LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1670012

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsDrawing, SwissAllegoriesNeoclassicism (Art)

Statusdesign for frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin, "The Economy of Vegetation," 1791, Part 1 of "The Botanic Garden, a Poem, In two parts

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Introduction (1): Mrs. Delany from Source to Subject

Alicia Weisberg-Roberts

Mrs. Delany and her Circle

The subject of this book, and the exhibition that it accompanies, was born Mary Granville on 14 May 1700 at Coulston, Wiltshire, and died Mary Delany on 15 April...

Author

Alicia Weisberg-Roberts

PublisherYale Center for British Art

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-16

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00085.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19556&redirecttoanchor=44899

Chapter subject tags:Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th centuryArt and natural history--Great Britain--History--18th centuryCollage, English--18th centuryWomen artists--Great Britain--18th centuryBotanical illustration--England--18th century

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