Sowerby English Botany
  • Sowerby Botany Plate 121 Wood Cranesbill

    Sowerby Botany Plate 121 Wood Cranesbill

    Price range: $24.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 121 Wood Cranesbill

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 122 Broad-leaved Garlick, or Ramsons

    Sowerby Botany Plate 122 Broad-leaved Garlick, or Ramsons

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 122 Broad-leaved Garlick, or Ramsons

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 123 Corn Gromwell

    Sowerby Botany Plate 123 Corn Gromwell

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 123 Corn Gromwell

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 124 Upright Cudwell

    Sowerby Botany Plate 124 Upright Cudwell

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 124 Upright Cudwell

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 125 Star Thistle

    Sowerby Botany Plate 125 Star Thistle

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 125 Star Thistle

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 126 Inflated Lichen

    Sowerby Botany Plate 126 Inflated Lichen

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 126 Inflated 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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 127 Common Sorrel

    Sowerby Botany Plate 127 Common Sorrel

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 127 Common Sorrel

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 128 Narrow-leaved Solomon's Seal

    Sowerby Botany Plate 128 Narrow-leaved Solomon’s Seal

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 128 Narrow-leaved Solomon’s Seal

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 130 Common Star of Bethlehem

    Sowerby Botany Plate 130 Common Star of Bethlehem

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 130 Common 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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 131 Marsh Club-rush

    Sowerby Botany Plate 131 Marsh Club-rush

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 131 Marsh Club-rush

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 132 Needle Furze

    Sowerby Botany Plate 132 Needle Furze

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 132 Needle Furze

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 133 Meadow Saffron

    Sowerby Botany Plate 133 Meadow Saffron

    Price range: $20.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 133 Meadow Saffron

    Price range: $20.50 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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 134 Common Gromwell

    Sowerby Botany Plate 134 Common Gromwell

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 134 Common Gromwell

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 135 Corn Crowfoot

    Sowerby Botany Plate 135 Corn Crowfoot

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 135 Corn Crowfoot

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 136 Sea Ruppia

    Sowerby Botany Plate 136 Sea Ruppia

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 136 Sea Ruppia

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 139 Narrow-leaved Water Parsnep

    Sowerby Botany Plate 139 Narrow-leaved Water Parsnep

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 139 Narrow-leaved Water Parsnep

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 141 Sea Cotton-weed

    Sowerby Botany Plate 141 Sea Cotton-weed

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 141 Sea Cotton-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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 142 Round-headed Rampion

    Sowerby Botany Plate 142 Round-headed Rampion

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 142 Round-headed Rampion

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 143 Cross-wort

    Sowerby Botany Plate 143 Cross-wort

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 143 Cross-wort

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 144 Purple Splachnum

    Sowerby Botany Plate 144 Purple Splachnum

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 144 Purple Splachnum

    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 1793 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 145 Pale Butter-wort

    Sowerby Botany Plate 145 Pale Butter-wort

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 145 Pale Butter-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 1794 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 148 Roman Nettle

    Sowerby Botany Plate 148 Roman Nettle

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 148 Roman Nettle

    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 1794 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 149 Rough Succory Hawkweed

    Sowerby Botany Plate 149 Rough Succory Hawkweed

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 149 Rough Succory Hawkweed

    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 1794 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 150 White Maiden-hair or Wall-rue

    Sowerby Botany Plate 150 White Maiden-hair or Wall-rue

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 150 White Maiden-hair or Wall-rue

    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 1794 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.