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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 3 Cornish Heath
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 3 Cornish Heath
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 6 Bird’s – Eye Primrose
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 6 Bird’s – Eye Primrose
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 10 Aromatic Orchis
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 10 Aromatic Orchis
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 11 Lesser Meadow-rue
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 11 Lesser Meadow-rue
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 13 Black Salt-wort
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Sowerby Botany Plate 13 Black Salt-wort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 16 Military Orchis
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 16 Military Orchis
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 18 Dwarf Orchis
Price range: $24.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 18 Dwarf Orchis
Price range: $24.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 20 Marsh Gentian, or Calathian Violet
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 20 Marsh Gentian, or Calathian Violet
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 22 Butterfly Orchis
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Sowerby Botany Plate 22 Butterfly Orchis
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 25 Vernal Speedwell
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 25 Vernal Speedwell
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 26 Trifid Speedwell
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 26 Trifid Speedwell
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 27 Umbelliferous Chickweed
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 27 Umbelliferous Chickweed
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 28 Globe-flower
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Sowerby Botany Plate 28 Globe-flower
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 30 Spring Vetch
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 30 Spring Vetch
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 32 Stinking Groundsel
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 32 Stinking Groundsel
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 33 Squinancy-wort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 33 Squinancy-wort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 35 Irish Heath
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 35 Irish Heath
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 36 Common Borage
Price range: $24.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 36 Common Borage
Price range: $24.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 38 Common Saw-wort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 38 Common Saw-wort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 39 Yellow Mountain Saxifrage
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 39 Yellow Mountain Saxifrage
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 40 Perennial Flax
Price range: $24.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 40 Perennial Flax
Price range: $24.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 41 Crested Cow-wheat
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 41 Crested Cow-wheat
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 42 Spreading Bell-flower
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Sowerby Botany Plate 42 Spreading Bell-flower
Price range: $24.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 44 Dyer’s Greenweed
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 44 Dyer’s Greenweed
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 45 Evergreen Alkanet
Price range: $24.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 45 Evergreen Alkanet
Price range: $24.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 46 Black Horehound
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 46 Black Horehound
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 48 Bird’s-nest Ophrys
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 48 Bird’s-nest Ophrys
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 49 Common Barberry
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 49 Common Barberry
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 53 Purple Cow-wheat
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 53 Purple Cow-wheat
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 54 Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 54 Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 55 Greater Dodder
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 55 Greater Dodder
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 57 Field Eryngo
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 57 Field Eryngo
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 59 Dark Mullein
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 59 Dark Mullein
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 60 Yellow Centaury
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 60 Yellow Centaury
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 62 Mountain Pink
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 62 Mountain Pink
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 64 Fly Orchis
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 64 Fly Orchis
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 66 Yellow Poppy
Price range: $32.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 66 Yellow Poppy
Price range: $32.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 69 Yellow Bird’s-nest
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 69 Yellow Bird’s-nest
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 70 Common Butter-wort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 70 Common Butter-wort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 72 Marsh Tway-blade
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 72 Marsh Tway-blade
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1790 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 74 Least Ladies-bedstraw
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 74 Least Ladies-bedstraw
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00This 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 76 Milkwort
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 76 Milkwort
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00This 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 77 Ground Pine
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 77 Ground Pine
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00This 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 79 Wood Vetch
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 79 Wood Vetch
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00This 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 80 Impatient Ladies-smock
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Sowerby Botany Plate 80 Impatient Ladies-smock
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00This 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 84 Common Arrow-head
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Sowerby Botany Plate 84 Common Arrow-head
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00This 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 81 Alpine Shephard’s Purse
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 81 Alpine Shephard’s Purse
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00This 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 83 Spiked Water – Millfoil
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 83 Spiked Water – Millfoil
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00This 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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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.