Sowerby English Botany
  • Sowerby Botany Plate 267 Mountain Cudweed, or Cat's-foot

    Sowerby Botany Plate 267 Mountain Cudweed, or Cat’s-foot

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 267 Mountain Cudweed, or Cat’s-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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 269 Broad-leaved Helleborine

    Sowerby Botany Plate 269 Broad-leaved Helleborine

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 269 Broad-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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 270 Marsh Helleborine

    Sowerby Botany Plate 270 Marsh Helleborine

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 270 Marsh 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 271 White Helleborine

    Sowerby Botany Plate 271 White Helleborine

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 271 White 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 273 Floating Bur-reed

    Sowerby Botany Plate 273 Floating Bur-reed

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 273 Floating Bur-reed

    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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 274 Purple Mountain Milkwort

    Sowerby Botany Plate 274 Purple Mountain Milkwort

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 274 Purple Mountain Milkwort

    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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 276 Pale Narcissus, or Primrose peerless

    Sowerby Botany Plate 276 Pale Narcissus, or Primrose peerless

    Price range: $32.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 276 Pale Narcissus, or Primrose peerless

    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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 280 Angular Solomon's - Seal

    Sowerby Botany Plate 280 Angular Solomon’s – Seal

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 280 Angular Solomon’s – Seal

    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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 281 Forked Jungermannia

    Sowerby Botany Plate 281 Forked Jungermannia

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 281 Forked Jungermannia

    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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 285 Sea Beet

    Sowerby Botany Plate 285 Sea Beet

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 285 Sea Beet

    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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 286 Motherwort

    Sowerby Botany Plate 286 Motherwort

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 286 Motherwort

    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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 287 Dotted Targionia

    Sowerby Botany Plate 287 Dotted Targionia

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 287 Dotted Targionia

    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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 288 Socket Lichen

    Sowerby Botany Plate 288 Socket Lichen

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 288 Socket 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 289 Creeping Satyroin

    Sowerby Botany Plate 289 Creeping Satyroin

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 289 Creeping Satyroin

    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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 290 Mat-grass

    Sowerby Botany Plate 290 Mat-grass

    Price range: $16.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 290 Mat-grass

    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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 291 Night-flowering Catchfly

    Sowerby Botany Plate 291 Night-flowering Catchfly

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 291 Night-flowering Catchfly

    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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 292 Hyssop-leaved Grass-poly

    Sowerby Botany Plate 292 Hyssop-leaved Grass-poly

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 292 Hyssop-leaved Grass-poly

    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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 293 Ball-bearing Lichen

    Sowerby Botany Plate 293 Ball-bearing Lichen

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 293 Ball-bearing 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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 295 Perforated St. John's Wort

    Sowerby Botany Plate 295 Perforated St. John’s Wort

    Price range: $20.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 295 Perforated St. John’s Wort

    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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 299 Reticulated Sphearocarpus

    Sowerby Botany Plate 299 Reticulated Sphearocarpus

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 299 Reticulated Sphearocarpus

    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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 300 Crowned Lichen

    Sowerby Botany Plate 300 Crowned Lichen

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 300 Crowned 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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 301 Common Golden-rod

    Sowerby Botany Plate 301 Common Golden-rod

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 301 Common Golden-rod

    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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 303 Greater Maple, or Sycamore

    Sowerby Botany Plate 303 Greater Maple, or Sycamore

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 303 Greater Maple, or Sycamore

    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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 304 Common Maple

    Sowerby Botany Plate 304 Common Maple

    Price range: $18.50 through $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 304 Common Maple

    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 1796 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.