...at the same time they were the admiration of botanists such as Sir Joseph Banks, Dr. Soland,er, &c., &c. Indeed Sir Joseph Banks used to say that Mrs....like a just idea of it, but the accounts that have ldtherto been given have been absolute fictions ! Dr. Darwin, in his Botanic Garden, thus alludes to...

...at the same time they were the admiration of botanists such as Sir Joseph Banks, Dr. Solander, &c., &c. Indeed Sir Joseph Banks used to say that Mrs....work has never (as far as the Editor is aware) been deseribed correctly. It would be impossible to give anything like a just idea of it, but the accounts...

...at the same time they were the admiration of botanists such as Sir Joseph Banks, Dr. Solander, &c., &c. Indeed Sir Joseph Banks used to say that Mrs....extraordinary fact that this work has never (as far as the LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE Editor is aware) been described correctly. It would be impossible to give anything...

...botanists as Sir Joseph Banks, Dr. Solander, etc. Indeed, Sir Joseph Banks used to say of them that they were the only imitations of Nature that he had ever...plant without the. least fear of committing an error. What first suggested the idea to Mrs. Delany, and encouraged her to proceed with the work, was a mistake...

...in his ' Botanic Garden ; ' Sir Joseph Banks said that it contained ' the only imitations of nature from which he could venture to describe botanically...plant without the least fear of committing an error;' and Sir Joshua Reynolds declared it to be unrivalled in perfection of outline, delicacy of cutting,...

...Banks used to say that Mrs Delany's representations of flowers " were the only imitations of nature he had ever seen from which he could venture to describe...plant without the least fear of committing an error." As to the craftsmanship, to have cut these bold curves by eye alone, these leaf-edges delicate as a...

...flowers. Sir Joseph Banks, the famous naturalist, considered her work to be the only imitations of nature he had ever seen from which he could venture to describe botanically any plant without fear of a mistake. Her work is also referred to by Dr. Erasmus Darwin in his Botanic Garden. She used...

...was known to say that Mrs. Delany's representations of flowers "were the only imitations of nature he had ever seen from which he could venture to describe...any plant without the least fear of committing an error."67 This was all in the future when the young widow met Swift. After Pendarves returned to England,...