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Mrs Delany & Her Circle. and over the ensuing yearsMark Laird & Alicia Weisberg Roberts, editors. At the age of seventy two, Mary Delany (1700 1788), embarked upon a series of nearly a thousand botanical collages, or paper mosaicks, that would prove to be the crowning achievement of her rich creative life. These delicate hand cut floral designs, made by a method of Mrs Delanys own invention, vie with the finest botanical art works of her time. Two of her works depict New Zealand plants newly arrived