Portrait of Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date
c.1875
Sitter
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 - 1911, British) , Botanist
Creator - Organisation
MacLure and MacDonald, Lithographer
After
George Charles Wallich (1815 - 1899, British) , Photographer
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 250mm
width (print): 205mm
width (print): 205mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Joseph Dalton Hooker in an oval frame. Hooker is depicted wearing spectacles, a black jacket and waistcoat, white shirt and a black tie. He is shown with a neat brown hair and a long beard. Colour lithograph after an original photograph.
Inscribed below: ‘Reproduction by Maclure and Macdonald, London/Jos.D.Hooker’
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), British botanist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1847, and served as its President from 1873 to 1878. He was awarded the Society's Royal Medal, 1854, Copley Medal, 1887, and Darwin Medal, 1892, for his services to botany.
Inscribed below: ‘Reproduction by Maclure and Macdonald, London/Jos.D.Hooker’
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), British botanist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1847, and served as its President from 1873 to 1878. He was awarded the Society's Royal Medal, 1854, Copley Medal, 1887, and Darwin Medal, 1892, for his services to botany.