Come on with me and visit house, garden and gallery.
Where: Beningbrough, York, North Yorkshire. It’s a National Trust Object. So if you use a card exhibition is free for you.
It was Christmas extras for me. Between long walk in natural circumstances really valuable an exhibition that will last until March 2025.
Bituminaria palaestina or Psoralea palaestina
Inscribed on reverse:
‘Bulstrode 28 Augt 1780.
British Museum
1897,0505.712
Papaver rhoeas
Inscribed on reverse:
‘Bulstrode Octr 1779.
British Museum
1897,0505.647
What more?
House is fantastic place for a workshop with family. When around everything was „to much Christmas” here we can try origami with instructions for tulip, butterfly or other nature elements. Results can stay on big wall and make this mural more pretty.
Finally visit in „second hand book shop”. Here is fantastic room where is quiet and wonderful dramatic mood. You can read on place or buy something. Prices are friendly and everything it is donation for National Trust object.
If you coming with family a must-see is the forest playground. Children can also build a hut! It’s fantastic is every season.
Winter show details in the garden. It was Christmas Boxing Day but some plants looks like. Easter
dwarf Rose Bay’
Rhododendron maximum
Inscribed on reverse:
*Luton 25 June 1778.
Commonly known today at the great laurel or American rosebay, it is native to Eastern North America.
Delany made this collage while staying at Luton Park, the home of the former Prime Minister and keen horticulturalist John Stuart, Earl of Bute.
1897,0505.731
Crinum zeyianicum
Inscribed on reverse:
“Hexandria monogynia,
‘St James’s Place 14 April 1778’ and ‘from Ld Rockm’.
The crinum, or milk and wine, lily is native to India, Sri Lanka and the Seychelles. It was given to Delany by the politician and twice Prime Minister
Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham.
British Museum
1897,0505.248
Magnolia grandiflora
‘Polyandria Polygynia’
Commonly called the evergreen magnolia, this specimen was provided to Delany from the grounds
of her friend Mary Tufton, the Dowager
The Oak tree with Short Stalk’d Acorns®
Quercus robur
Inscribed on reverse:
‘9 Septr 1781’.
Delany has incorporated a leaf sample into the work.
British Museum
1897,0505.721
‘Scarlet Geranium
& Lobelia Cardinalis®
Pelargonium fulgidum cultivar and Lobelia cardinalis
Inscribed on reverse:
first Essay’ and ‘Bulstrode 1773.
The inscription on the reverse of this work suggests it is the final version of the essays’ that began in October 1772 when Mary Delany wrote to her niece, Mary Port, declaring “I have invented a new way of imitating flowers.
British Museum 1897,0505.529.+
‘Papaver rheus Poppy’
Papaver rhoeas
Inscribed on reverse:
‘Bulstrode Octr 1779.
British Museum
1897,0505.647
That’s only few samples. You can check everything with your own eyes. Mary Delany (1700-1788) transformed many ordinary materials into extraordinarily beautiful artworks. Technics like painting, cutting, and layering paper make together her floral ‘mosaiks’ (as she called them).
Since 70’s years she created over 900 ‘mosaiks’ in ten years, until failing eyesight stopped her from working. It must be for an artist something scary.
What more on an exhibition?
(1830-1890)
‘Japan’
Oil on canvas, 1875-85
On loan from Gawthorpe Textiles Collection by kind permission of the Trustees with assistance from Lancashire County Council
(1750-1811) ог
MARY PARMINTER
(1767-1849)
Cut paperwork picture
Paper, gilt-wood and silk ribbon,
1770-1820
Common name: Hazel
Adage: Nemo bene imperat nisi qvi parverit imperio (No man can be a good ruler unless he hath first been ruled)
Common name: Hawthorn
Motto: Ab omni parte eqvaliter pungo (I wound from all sides alike)
Also house is incredible space. Every season and every weather shows a different face.
