Joseph Dalton Hooker was one of Victorian Britain’s most important men of science. A botanical emperor and tireless traveller, this new exhibition at The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, ‘Joseph Hooker: Putting plants in their place’, charts his incredible life and celebrates the years of hard work that earned him the title ‘the king of Kew’.
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This exhibition charts his incredible voyage from England to the Antarctic, and many other remote places around the world, with paintings, engravings and even Hooker’s own belongings on display.
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Explore how Hooker collected plants, classified them and much more about status sciences, such as physics.
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Move through a series of delicate yet vibrant drawings, paintings and prints from his travels all over the world.
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Also see selected British Artists in The Shirley Sherwood Collection
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Expect new paintings by Brigid Edwards and Fiona Strickland, spectacular large scale works by Coral Guest and Rosie Sanders, and life sized portrait of the Titan arum.
Not to be missed, the largest flower in the world was painted simultaneously by 3 artists to capture its growth to over 9 feet in just a few days. A selection of works by Kew artists from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine will also be on display.
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