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William Walker - Original 1854 Mezzotint. Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker, F.R.S. in the Rhododendron Region of the Himalaya Mountains. Unsigned. Significant fading outside of middle oval, as shown. Trimmed.Nature lovers may have seen this spectacular mezzotint featured recently on the BBCs Natural World episode The Himilayas. This extremely rare engraving documents Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker's famous expedition into the Himalayas. A hugely important figure in the history of botanic science, and a close friend of Charles Darwin, Dr Hooker was the first European ever to collect plants from the Himalayas. He was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for twenty years and during his exploration of the Himilayas he sent back many previously unknown species of rhododendron, some of which can be seen in Kew's Rhododendron Dell. His book The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya was followed by two volumes of Himalayan Journals and The Flora of British India.For more information please click here.
Size
50.5 x 34.5cm (19.9" x 13.6")
Collection Information
From the Christopher Lennox-Boyd collection. We recently acquired a number of fine Mezzotints previously owned by Chris Lennox-Boyd, owner of the finest collection of British Mezzotints in private hands. You can read more about him here.
