| Description | Monochrome etching showing a seventeen-year-old Maria Sarah (née Turner), Lady Hooker (1797-1872) the year before her marriage. She is depicted in a simple dress with tightly curled hair. Lady Hooker was the wife of William Jackson Hooker FRS (1785-1865) the prominent botanist and first director of Kew Gardens. One of their sons, Joseph Dalton Hooker FRS (1817-1911), succeeded his father as director of the gardens. Etching by Mary Dawson Turner (1774–1850), the sitter's mother, after a painting by Thomas Phillips (1770-1845). |