From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
25 April 1849
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.159-161, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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JDH describes the portrait Mr Tayler is painting of him. The scene is JDH’s camp in a forest after a supposed day of collecting in the snowy Himalaya mountains & features: JDH’s Lepcha Sirdar presenting him with a bunch of Dendrobium nobile; the Ghorkha [Gurkha], Havildar & Lepchas in their uniforms; JDH’s Bhotea dog; bamboos, ferns &rhododendrons. JDH also describes the combination of Thibetan [Tibetan]& English clothes he is wearing for the portrait, including a hat mounted with a silver pebble & peacock feather as marks of rank. Illustrated with a sketch of the hat.