Joseph Dalton Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Joseph Dalton Art Value Price Guide

Dec. 10, 2022
Hooker, Folio - 4 Botanical Lithographs
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
This exceptional folio botanical lithograph with original hand-coloring is from Joseph Dalton Hooker's Illustrations of Himalayan plants. The work was published in London by L. Reeve in 1855. The drawings were completed by artists native to the Himalayas. The lithographic illustrations were done by Walter Hood Fitch, one of the most celebrated botanical artists of his time. The work was to be distributed freely "the principal botanists and scientific establishments in Europe" including Charled Darwin through the financing of James F. Cathcart. His untimely death caused for the work to be sold to 176 subscribers. Jan Lewis referred to it as "one of the finest flower books ever produced." Fitch translated the original illustrations to correct"the stiffness and want of botanical knowledge displayed by the native artists who executed most of the originals." (Introduction) "For the title page of the book, Fitch created a design of thirty different species of Himalyan flora. Other pages, vibrant with colour, illustrate such plants as the purple 'Magnolia campbellii', or the 'Querrcus lamellosa'. The Victorians loved superlatives, and they loved this book. Not only did it contain Fitch's best work, but it was also one of the finest flower books ever produced. It created a sensation in 1855 when it sold for 5 guineas..." (J. Lewis, Walter Hood Fitch, a celebration p. 16)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Nov. 26, 2022
Hooker, Folio - Whorled Honey Flower - Paris Polyphylla. 24
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
This exceptional folio botanical lithograph with original hand-coloring is from Joseph Dalton Hooker's Illustrations of Himalayan plants. The work was published in London by L. Reeve in 1855. The drawings were completed by artists native to the Himalayas. The lithographic illustrations were done by Walter Hood Fitch, one of the most celebrated botanical artists of his time. The work was to be distributed freely "the principal botanists and scientific establishments in Europe" including Charled Darwin through the financing of James F. Cathcart. His untimely death caused for the work to be sold to 176 subscribers. Jan Lewis referred to it as "one of the finest flower books ever produced." Fitch translated the original illustrations to correct"the stiffness and want of botanical knowledge displayed by the native artists who executed most of the originals." (Introduction) "For the title page of the book, Fitch created a design of thirty different species of Himalyan flora. Other pages, vibrant with colour, illustrate such plants as the purple 'Magnolia campbellii', or the 'Querrcus lamellosa'. The Victorians loved superlatives, and they loved this book. Not only did it contain Fitch's best work, but it was also one of the finest flower books ever produced. It created a sensation in 1855 when it sold for 5 guineas..." (J. Lewis, Walter Hood Fitch, a celebration p. 16)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Nov. 26, 2022
Hooker, Folio - Orchid - Vanda Cathcarti. 23
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
This exceptional folio botanical lithograph with original hand-coloring is from Joseph Dalton Hooker's Illustrations of Himalayan plants. The work was published in London by L. Reeve in 1855. The drawings were completed by artists native to the Himalayas. The lithographic illustrations were done by Walter Hood Fitch, one of the most celebrated botanical artists of his time. The work was to be distributed freely "the principal botanists and scientific establishments in Europe" including Charled Darwin through the financing of James F. Cathcart. His untimely death caused for the work to be sold to 176 subscribers. Jan Lewis referred to it as "one of the finest flower books ever produced." Fitch translated the original illustrations to correct"the stiffness and want of botanical knowledge displayed by the native artists who executed most of the originals." (Introduction) "For the title page of the book, Fitch created a design of thirty different species of Himalyan flora. Other pages, vibrant with colour, illustrate such plants as the purple 'Magnolia campbellii', or the 'Querrcus lamellosa'. The Victorians loved superlatives, and they loved this book. Not only did it contain Fitch's best work, but it was also one of the finest flower books ever produced. It created a sensation in 1855 when it sold for 5 guineas..." (J. Lewis, Walter Hood Fitch, a celebration p. 16)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Nov. 26, 2022
Hooker, Folio - Lindley's Galeola - Cyrtosia Lindleyana. 22
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
This exceptional folio botanical lithograph with original hand-coloring is from Joseph Dalton Hooker's Illustrations of Himalayan plants. The work was published in London by L. Reeve in 1855. The drawings were completed by artists native to the Himalayas. The lithographic illustrations were done by Walter Hood Fitch, one of the most celebrated botanical artists of his time. The work was to be distributed freely "the principal botanists and scientific establishments in Europe" including Charled Darwin through the financing of James F. Cathcart. His untimely death caused for the work to be sold to 176 subscribers. Jan Lewis referred to it as "one of the finest flower books ever produced." Fitch translated the original illustrations to correct"the stiffness and want of botanical knowledge displayed by the native artists who executed most of the originals." (Introduction) "For the title page of the book, Fitch created a design of thirty different species of Himalyan flora. Other pages, vibrant with colour, illustrate such plants as the purple 'Magnolia campbellii', or the 'Querrcus lamellosa'. The Victorians loved superlatives, and they loved this book. Not only did it contain Fitch's best work, but it was also one of the finest flower books ever produced. It created a sensation in 1855 when it sold for 5 guineas..." (J. Lewis, Walter Hood Fitch, a celebration p. 16)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Nov. 19, 2022
Hooker, Folio - Campbell's Magnolia - Magnolia Campbellii. 4
Est: $2,500 - $4,500
This exceptional folio botanical lithograph with original hand-coloring is from Joseph Dalton Hooker's Illustrations of Himalayan plants. The work was published in London by L. Reeve in 1855. The drawings were completed by artists native to the Himalayas. The lithographic illustrations were done by Walter Hood Fitch, one of the most celebrated botanical artists of his time. The work was to be distributed freely "the principal botanists and scientific establishments in Europe" including Charled Darwin through the financing of James F. Cathcart. His untimely death caused for the work to be sold to 176 subscribers. Jan Lewis referred to it as "one of the finest flower books ever produced." Fitch translated the original illustrations to correct"the stiffness and want of botanical knowledge displayed by the native artists who executed most of the originals." (Introduction) "For the title page of the book, Fitch created a design of thirty different species of Himalyan flora. Other pages, vibrant with colour, illustrate such plants as the purple 'Magnolia campbellii', or the 'Querrcus lamellosa'. The Victorians loved superlatives, and they loved this book. Not only did it contain Fitch's best work, but it was also one of the finest flower books ever produced. It created a sensation in 1855 when it sold for 5 guineas..." (J. Lewis, Walter Hood Fitch, a celebration p. 16)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Nov. 19, 2022
Hooker, Folio - Campbell's Magnolia - Magnolia Campbellii. 5
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
This exceptional folio botanical lithograph with original hand-coloring is from Joseph Dalton Hooker's Illustrations of Himalayan plants. The work was published in London by L. Reeve in 1855. The drawings were completed by artists native to the Himalayas. The lithographic illustrations were done by Walter Hood Fitch, one of the most celebrated botanical artists of his time. The work was to be distributed freely "the principal botanists and scientific establishments in Europe" including Charled Darwin through the financing of James F. Cathcart. His untimely death caused for the work to be sold to 176 subscribers. Jan Lewis referred to it as "one of the finest flower books ever produced." Fitch translated the original illustrations to correct"the stiffness and want of botanical knowledge displayed by the native artists who executed most of the originals." (Introduction) "For the title page of the book, Fitch created a design of thirty different species of Himalyan flora. Other pages, vibrant with colour, illustrate such plants as the purple 'Magnolia campbellii', or the 'Querrcus lamellosa'. The Victorians loved superlatives, and they loved this book. Not only did it contain Fitch's best work, but it was also one of the finest flower books ever produced. It created a sensation in 1855 when it sold for 5 guineas..." (J. Lewis, Walter Hood Fitch, a celebration p. 16)
Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
Nov. 25, 2021
India.- Hooker (Joseph Dalton) Himalayan Journals, 2 vol., with A.L.s. from Hooker to H.N.Ellacombe, 1854.
Est: £600 - £800
Hooker (Joseph Dalton) Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains &c., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 12 tinted lithographed or chromolithographed plates (1 folding), 2 folding partly hand-coloured maps at end of vol.1, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, errata slips, 32pp. catalogue at end of vol.1, foxing to chromolithographed plates but tinted plates clean, one or two pencil or crayon markings, shaken and becoming loose, with 6pp. A.L.s. from the author to Mr. Ellacombe dated December 19th 1887 concerning botanical matters loosely inserted in vol.1 and sheet of notes on Himalayan peaks and passes in another (?Ellacombe's) hand in vol.2, original pictorial cloth, gilt with blind-stamped border, rubbed and faded, spines browned, vol.2 worn and defective at head, [Abbey, Travel 503], 8vo, 1854. ⁂ With an extensive ALs from Hooker on the subject of fossil botany, including the Ginkgo Tree, "With regard to Salisburia, I was the first to show its strong resemblance of the oval... fruit called Trigonocarpor to that of Salisburia... ." Rev. H.N.Ellacombe (1822-1916), plantsman and botanical author. He exchanged plants from his garden at Bitton, Glos. with Kew and other gardens, and Hooker dedicated vol.107 of the Botanical Magazine to him.
Forum Auctions - UK
Oct. 28, 2021
Botany.- Hooker (Joseph Dalton) Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas..., 2 vol., first edition, 1854.
Est: £400 - £600
Botany.- Hooker (Joseph Dalton) Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains &c., 2 vol., first edition, half-title in vol.1 only (detached with frontispiece, lacking half-title in vol.2), with 12 tinted lithographed or chromolithographed plates (1 folding), 2 folding partly hand-coloured maps at end of vol.1, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, errata slips, a few plates with marginal staining, one folding map mounted on linen and edged in silk, some browning and foxing, later cloth with original pictorial gilt cloth upper covers and plain lower covers mounted on boards (rubbed and faded, traces of labels removed from upper covers), [Abbey, Travel 503], 8vo, 1854.
Forum Auctions - UK
Jun. 09, 2019
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Est: $300 - $500
Joseph Dalton Hooker Gladiolus purpureo framed plate hand colored plate with marks and stamps as shown. Professionally matted and framed as shown, see photos. Measuring approx. 20" x 16" including the frame, see photos. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB PRS was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. Hooker, unlike his father, had the benefit of a formal education and was graduated from the University of Glasgow with an M.D., in 1839. Through his familiarity with his fathers herbarium, he was well prepared for the first of his many travelsas surgeon-botanist aboard HMS Erebus on the Antarctic expedition of 183943. Thereafter a steady stream of publications followed, punctuated by his own travels: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in 18391843 (184460); Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya (1849); Handbook of the New Zealand Flora (1864); The Flora of British India (187297); and Journal of a Tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas (1878). His last major botanical expedition, to the Rocky Mountains and California (1877), led to the publication of several important papers concerning the relationship of American and Asian floras. His travels resulted in the discovery of species new to science, many of which were soon introduced to horticultural circles. Even more important, however, were the data, which gained him an international reputation as a plant geographer. One of the most significant results of his travels was an attempt to explain the geographical distribution of plants and their seemingly anomalous variations. As a close friend of Charles Darwin and one well acquainted with the latters early work, Hooker, along with the geologist Sir Charles Lyell, presided at the historic meeting of the Linnean Society (London) in July 1858. It was their function to adjudicate the priority claims concerning natural selection as the mechanism for evolution, which had been advanced simultaneously by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. By lending his support to a scientific claim that was soon to be attacked on extrascientific grounds, Hooker was among the first to demonstrate the importance and applicability of the evolutionary theory to botany in general and to plant geography in particular. The capstone to Hookers career came in 1883 with the publication of the final volume of the Genera Plantarum, written in conjunction with George Bentham. This world flora, describing 7,569 genera and approximately 97,000 species of seed-bearing plants, was based on a personal examination of the specimens cited, the vast majority of which were deposited at Kew.
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