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3rd February 2025

We have a very unassuming but well-loved subject on the Post this week: snowdrops. They are emerging now and herald the promise, if not the actual arrival, of spring. They have also inspired many artists in various media. This is a collage made in 1777 by Mary Delany, now in an album in the British Museum. She began her "exquisite craft" at the age of 72 and went on to produce "a series of 985 extraordinarily detailed floral collages".

 

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