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English Botany

Illustrated by James Sowerby with text by James Edward Smith.

Add a garden to any room with a selection of Sowerby’s English Botany botanical prints framed in natural wood frames. 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. 

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 155 Sanguineous Lichen

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 155 Sanguineous Lichen

    $20.50 – $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 180 Rigid Bryum

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 180 Rigid Bryum

    $20.50 – $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 202 Matted Hypnum

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 202 Matted Hypnum

    $20.50 – $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 211 Dyer’s Lichen, or Orchall

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 211 Dyer’s Lichen, or Orchall

    $16.50 – $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 218 Verticillate Water – Milfoil

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 218 Verticillate Water – Milfoil

    $20.50 – $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 221 Spiked Sea Wheat-grass

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 221 Spiked Sea Wheat-grass

    $20.50 – $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 222 Sea Canary-grass

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 222 Sea Canary-grass

    $20.50 – $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 223 Scarlet Lichen

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 223 Scarlet Lichen

    $20.50 – $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 224 Common Club-moss

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 224 Common Club-moss

    $20.50 – $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 227 Water Honewort

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 227 Water Honewort

    $20.50 – $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 233 Fir Club-moss

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 233 Fir Club-moss

    $20.50 – $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 235 Least Gentianella

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 235 Least Gentianella

    $20.50 – $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 238 Jointed Rush

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 238 Jointed Rush

    $20.50 – $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 239 Marsh Club-moss

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 239 Marsh Club-moss

    $20.50 – $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 245 Map Lichen

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 245 Map Lichen

    $20.50 – $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 246 Concentric Lichen

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 246 Concentric Lichen

    $20.50 – $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 247 Bastard Toad-flax

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 247 Bastard Toad-flax

    $20.50 – $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 248 Procumbent Pepper-wort

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 248 Procumbent Pepper-wort

    $20.50 – $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 251 Floated branched Riccia

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 251 Floated branched Riccia

    $20.50 – $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 252 Fringed Riccia

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 252 Fringed Riccia

    $20.50 – $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 255 Sea Arrow – Grass

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 255 Sea Arrow – Grass

    $20.50 – $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 257 Stringy Lichen

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 257 Stringy Lichen

    $20.50 – $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 258 Jointed Lichen

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 258 Jointed Lichen

    $20.50 – $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 261 Shrubby Orache, or Sea Purslane

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 261 Shrubby Orache, or Sea Purslane

    $20.50 – $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 263 Pellucid Laver

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 263 Pellucid Laver

    $20.50 – $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 264 Upright Hypnum

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 264 Upright Hypnum

    $20.50 – $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 265 Cylindrical Hypnum

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 265 Cylindrical Hypnum

    $20.50 – $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 266 Hollowed Lichen

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 266 Hollowed Lichen

    $20.50 – $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 282 Crisp Lichen

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 282 Crisp Lichen

    $20.50 – $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

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 285 Sea Beet

    $20.50 – $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 318 Moonwort

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 318 Moonwort

    $16.50 – $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 320 Dyer’s-weed, or Yellow-weed

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 320 Dyer’s-weed, or Yellow-weed

    $16.50 – $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 321 Wild Mignonette, or Base Rocket

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 321 Wild Mignonette, or Base Rocket

    $16.50 – $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 328 Matted Sea Lavender

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 328 Matted Sea Lavender

    $16.50 – $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 329 Leafy Buxbaumia

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 329 Leafy Buxbaumia

    $16.50 – $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 330 Crooked Phascum

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 330 Crooked Phascum

    $16.50 – $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 333 Upright warty Spurge

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 333 Upright warty Spurge

    $16.50 – $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 336 Common Chara

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 336 Common Chara

    $16.50 – $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 342 Yellow twisting Bryum

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 342 Yellow twisting Bryum

    $16.50 – $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 351 Annual Knawel

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 351 Annual Knawel

    $16.50 – $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 352 Perennial Knawel

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 352 Perennial Knawel

    $16.50 – $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 356 Sweet Flag

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 356 Sweet Flag

    $16.50 – $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 357 Mudwort

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 357 Mudwort

    $16.50 – $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 358 Heart-leaved Mountain Ophrys

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 358 Heart-leaved Mountain Ophrys

    $16.50 – $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 359 Greater Water-moss

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 359 Greater Water-moss

    $16.50 – $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 360 Shining Bryum

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 360 Shining Bryum

    $16.50 – $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 389 Golden Bryum

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 389 Golden Bryum

    $20.50 – $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 390 Fountain Bryum

    $20.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 390 Fountain Bryum

    $20.50 – $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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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.