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36. 'Scarlet Geranium' (in Mrs Delany's index this reads 'Bloody Cranesbill'). Probably her first 'paper mosaick', worked on shiny black paper.
37. 'Dianthus superbus, Feather'd Pink'. Numbered 22 on the back.
38. Detail of 'Passeflora Laurifolia' (see p. 72). the bloom includes 230 paper petals.
39. 'Arum esculentum, Eatable Wake Robin [Colocasia esculenta]. From a drawing of Lady Anne Monson's--Madras'