Sowerby English Botany
  • Sowerby Botany Plate 489 Common Bugle

    Sowerby Botany Plate 489 Common Bugle

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 489 Common Bugle

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 490 Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage

    Sowerby Botany Plate 490 Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 490 Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 491 Naked-flowering Crocus

    Sowerby Botany Plate 491 Naked-flowering Crocus

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 491 Naked-flowering Crocus

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 492 Hairy Ladies' - Smock

    Sowerby Botany Plate 492 Hairy Ladies’ – Smock

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 492 Hairy Ladies’ – Smock

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 493 Spring Gentian

    Sowerby Botany Plate 493 Spring Gentian

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 493 Spring Gentian

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 494 Narrow-leaved Helleborine

    Sowerby Botany Plate 494 Narrow-leaved Helleborine

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 494 Narrow-leaved Helleborine

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 495 Common Buckbean

    Sowerby Botany Plate 495 Common Buckbean

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 495 Common Buckbean

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 496 Common Holly

    Sowerby Botany Plate 496 Common Holly

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 496 Common Holly

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 497 Pitted Lichen

    Sowerby Botany Plate 497 Pitted Lichen

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 497 Pitted Lichen

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 498 Saffron-coloured Lichen

    Sowerby Botany Plate 498 Saffron-coloured Lichen

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 498 Saffron-coloured Lichen

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 499 Spiked Star of Bethlehem

    Sowerby Botany Plate 499 Spiked Star of Bethlehem

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 499 Spiked Star of Bethlehem

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 500 White Saxifrage

    Sowerby Botany Plate 500 White Saxifrage

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 500 White Saxifrage

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 501 Rue-leaved Saxifrage

    Sowerby Botany Plate 501 Rue-leaved Saxifrage

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 501 Rue-leaved Saxifrage

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 502 Ivy-leaved Snapdragon

    Sowerby Botany Plate 502 Ivy-leaved Snapdragon

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 502 Ivy-leaved Snapdragon

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 503 Hemisphaerical Marchantia

    Sowerby Botany Plate 503 Hemisphaerical Marchantia

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 503 Hemisphaerical Marchantia

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 504 Conical Marchantia

    Sowerby Botany Plate 504 Conical Marchantia

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 504 Conical Marchantia

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 577 Reddish Bastard-Balm

    Sowerby Botany Plate 577 Reddish Bastard-Balm

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 577 Reddish Bastard-Balm

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 578 Yellow Water-Iris

    Sowerby Botany Plate 578 Yellow Water-Iris

    Price range: $32.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 578 Yellow Water-Iris

    Price range: $32.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 579 Great Carex

    Sowerby Botany Plate 579 Great Carex

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 579 Great Carex

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 580 Slender-spiked Carex

    Sowerby Botany Plate 580 Slender-spiked Carex

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 580 Slender-spiked Carex

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 581 Great Bilberry

    Sowerby Botany Plate 581 Great Bilberry

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 581 Great Bilberry

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 582 Grey Tree Lichen

    Sowerby Botany Plate 582 Grey Tree Lichen

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 582 Grey Tree Lichen

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 583 Apple Rose

    Sowerby Botany Plate 583 Apple Rose

    Price range: $32.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 583 Apple Rose

    Price range: $32.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 584 Pile-wort

    Sowerby Botany Plate 584 Pile-wort

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 584 Pile-wort

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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Sowerby English Botany

Antique hand-colored engravings by James Sowerby from English Botany, available for sale, are not just exquisite pieces of botanical art; they are also historical treasures capturing the essence of 18th and 19th-century botany. Crafted with meticulous detail and artistic flair, each engraving is a testament to Sowerby’s skill and passion for botanical illustration.

These engravings not only serve as beautiful decorations but also as valuable educational resources, offering a window into the botanical discoveries of their time. Sowerby’s work, in collaboration with eminent botanists like Sir James Edward Smith, helped document and disseminate knowledge about the rich flora of the British Isles and beyond. Sowerby Antique engravings for sale.

Beyond their aesthetic appeal, these engravings are a testament to the intersection of art and science. Sowerby’s ability to combine precision with artistic expression resulted in images that are both scientifically accurate and visually captivating, making them prized possessions for collectors, historians, and botany enthusiasts alike.

Owning a piece of Sowerby’s English Botany is not just acquiring a beautiful artwork at an affordable price; it’s possessing a piece of botanical history, a tangible connection to the pioneering spirit of botanical exploration and illustration that defined an era.