Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/3/1/2
Page: 67
Description
notes on William Jackson Hooker and Reverend Pendlebury of the Octagon Chapel.
Note to Mr Hooker 1812.
Kitson's research notes.
Date: 31/12/1812
Transcription
To Mr. Hooker C1815-20
These are all the soft ground etchings I have at present. When I print again I will finish a Book for you similar to that presented to Mrs Turner.
Your very obliged
J.S.Cotman
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m.d. - but previous to 1836, as William Jackson Hooker was made a Knight of Hanover in this year. He married Maria Turner in 1815 - lived at Halesworth, Suffolk and managed the brewery there till 1820, where he became professor of Botany at Glasgow.
This letter is written in pencil on the top of a copy of the soft ground portrait of the Rev: Pendlebury Houghton, minister of the Unitarian Octagon Chapel, Norwich. Another copy of this etching is bound up in the Dawson Turner volume of "Collection of Original Etching's 1819"-in V&A Museum.
P.H. was minister of the Octagon Chapel 1787 - 1812 - with (a break of 2 years 1809 - 1811.) The original drawing is pasted into [[bound? up with]] Taylor's M.S. 'History of Protestant Dissenters worshipping at the Octagon Chapel. The book was finished in 1796 - It is now in the custody of the [1 word illegible] to the congregation - Mr. R.H. Mottram -
It almost certainly dates from 1812.
The pencil drawing of Hooker by J.S.C. in the V & A Museum (Dawson Turner collection) is dated 1812 & the 2 resemble each other very closely.