Hooker Collection (page 6)

Hedychium acuminatum.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, 1830

Sweet granadilla or grenadia, Passiflora ligularis.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine

Slender penstemon, Penstemon gracilis.. Illustration by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, 1829

Helianthus pubescens, Illinois sunflower from the southern states of the US.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Banksia integrifolia, entire-leaved banksia with two flowers and bracteae, native to Australia.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Scilla esculenta, esculent squill or camass with white flowers.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine 1827

Mirbelia grandiflora, large-flowered mirbelia with yellow and scarlet flowers from Australia.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Angular-leaved downy naranjilla, with attractive deep green and purple foliage, Solanum quitense.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Acacia mucronata, Mucronated acacia or narrow-leaf wattle with pale yellow flowers.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Single white-flowered camellia, Camellia japonica flore simplici albo.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine 1827

Varieties of picotees or fringed carnations, salmon-pink, lilac blue, Dianthus caryophyllus.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Many-leaved liparis orchid, Liparis foliosa, with pale-greenish yellow flowers from Mauritius.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan

Large-flowered marsh ox-eye, Pyrethrum uligonosum.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine, 1827

Handsome pinnate-leaved mutisia, Mutisia speciosa, from Brazil.. Drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine, 1827

Deep blood-colored potentilla, Potentilla atro-sanguinea.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine, 1826

Richard Hooker - 2
RICHARD HOOKER English churchman, rector of Bishopsbourne, Kent, author of Ecclesiastical Polity. Date: 1554? - 1600

William Jackson Hooker
Sir WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER English maturalist, director of the Royal Gardens at Kew. Date: 1785 - 1865

Joseph Hookers Study
Sir JOSEPH HOOKERs study at Kew. Date: 1884

Joseph Dalton Hooker
SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER Botanist and traveller, President of the Royal Society. Date: 1817 - 1911

Sir Stanley Hooker (left) receives the Royal Aeronautical Societys British Silver Medal in 1955 from N.E. Rowe, RAeS President

Sir Stanley Hooker (left) and Sir George Edwards at 4 Hamilton Place

Aptenodytes fosteri, emperor penguin
This emperor penguin, one of the earliest to come to Britain, was one of the many specimens collected by James Clark Ross Antarctic expedition between 1839 and 1843

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911)
Youngest son of the botanist and professor William Jackson Hooker. Joseph Dalton Hooke, became an established botanist, plant collector and traveller

Sir William Hooker (1785-1865)
Portrait of Sir William Hooker, Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew

Eucalyptus urnigera, eucalyptus
Plate from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Erebus and Terror. Part III: Flora Tasmaniae. by J. D. Hooker, 1860

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, F. R. S. (1817-1911)
Portrait of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, an English botanist and traveller. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Cladhymenia oblongifolia
Plate CXXVII from The Botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839-1843, Volume 2 (1847), by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

Matilda Smith (1854-1926)
Cousin of Joseph Hooker, the creator of the Botanical magazine and son of William Hooker (establisher of worldwide communications and correspondence system for collectors)

Prunus sp. peach (Neals Early Purple Peach)
Plate 23 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Octopus illustration
Plate 20, watercolour by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker from the plate collection of the Murray Library

Pyrus sp. apple (The Court of Wick Pippin)
Plate 32 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Pyrus sp. pear (Wormsley Bergamot Pear)

Pyrus sp. pear (Chaumontel Pear)
Plate 11 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Vitis sp. grape (Black Prince Grape)
Plate 45 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Antarctic fish illustration
Watercolour by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker from his Drawings of Antartic Fish, 1889. Plate no 12

Prunus sp. peach (Bourdine Peach)
Plate 16 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Pyrus sp. pear (True St. Germain Pear)
Plate 5 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Pyrus sp. pear (The Brown Beurre Pear)
Plate 27 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Pyrus sp. apple (Fearns Pippin apple)
Plate 43 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Pyrus sp. pear (Aston Town Pear)
Plate 18 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus sp. plum (The Nectarine Plum)
Plate 39 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Malas sp. apple (Hughess New Golden Pippin Apple)
Plate 26 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Pyrus sp. pear (Colmart Pear)
Plate 19 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Pyrus sp. apple (Sykehouse Apple)
Plate 40 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Corylus avellana, cob nut
Plate 49 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus sp. plum (Catherine Plum)
Plate 24 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus sp. cherry (The May Duke Cherry)
Plate 28 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus sp. plum (Coes Golden Drop Plum)
Plate 14 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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