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  <dc:title>Portrait of Maria Sarah, Lady Hooker</dc:title>
  <dc: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).</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1814</dc:date>
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