Sowerby English Botany
  • Sowerby Botany Plate 412 Slender-flowered or Welted Thistle

    Sowerby Botany Plate 412 Slender-flowered or Welted Thistle

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 412 Slender-flowered or Welted Thistle

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 413 Pear-shaped Bryum

    Sowerby Botany Plate 413 Pear-shaped Bryum

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 413 Pear-shaped Bryum

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 414 Black Pin-headed Lichen

    Sowerby Botany Plate 414 Black Pin-headed Lichen

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 414 Black Pin-headed 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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 415 Annual Samphire or Jointed Glasswort

    Sowerby Botany Plate 415 Annual Samphire or Jointed Glasswort

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 415 Annual Samphire or Jointed Glasswort

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 416 Hedge Woundwort

    Sowerby Botany Plate 416 Hedge Woundwort

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 416 Hedge Woundwort

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 417 Common Centaury

    Sowerby Botany Plate 417 Common Centaury

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 417 Common Centaury

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 418 Flat-stalked Pond-weed

    Sowerby Botany Plate 418 Flat-stalked Pond-weed

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 418 Flat-stalked Pond-weed

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 419 Concentric-dotted Laver

    Sowerby Botany Plate 419 Concentric-dotted Laver

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 419 Concentric-dotted Laver

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 420 Laciniated Red laver

    Sowerby Botany Plate 420 Laciniated Red laver

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 420 Laciniated Red laver

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 421 Greater Broom-rape

    Sowerby Botany Plate 421 Greater Broom-rape

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 421 Greater Broom-rape

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 422 Lesser Broom-rape

    Sowerby Botany Plate 422 Lesser Broom-rape

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 422 Lesser Broom-rape

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 423 Purple Broom-rape

    Sowerby Botany Plate 423 Purple Broom-rape

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 423 Purple Broom-rape

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 425 Sallow-thorn, or Sea Buck-thorn

    Sowerby Botany Plate 425 Sallow-thorn, or Sea Buck-thorn

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 425 Sallow-thorn, or Sea Buck-thorn

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 426 Yew-leaved Hypnum

    Sowerby Botany Plate 426 Yew-leaved Hypnum

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 426 Yew-leaved Hypnum

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 427 Hop

    Sowerby Botany Plate 427 Hop

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 427 Hop

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 428 Hemp-agrimony

    Sowerby Botany Plate 428 Hemp-agrimony

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 428 Hemp-agrimony

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 429 Colts-foot

    Sowerby Botany Plate 429 Colts-foot

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 429 Colts-foot

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 430 Longer-stalked Butter-bur

    Sowerby Botany Plate 430 Longer-stalked Butter-bur

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 430 Longer-stalked Butter-bur

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 431 Common Butter-bur

    Sowerby Botany Plate 431 Common Butter-bur

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 431 Common Butter-bur

    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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 432 Mealy-bordered Lichen

    Sowerby Botany Plate 432 Mealy-bordered Lichen

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 432 Mealy-bordered 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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 433 Two-flowered Linnaea

    Sowerby Botany Plate 433 Two-flowered Linnaea

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 433 Two-flowered Linnaea

    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 434 Yellow Goat's-beard

    Sowerby Botany Plate 434 Yellow Goat’s-beard

    Price range: $24.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 434 Yellow Goat’s-beard

    Price range: $24.50 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 435 Mouse-tail

    Sowerby Botany Plate 435 Mouse-tail

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 435 Mouse-tail

    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 436 Amphibious Persicaria

    Sowerby Botany Plate 436 Amphibious Persicaria

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 436 Amphibious Persicaria

    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 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.