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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 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 $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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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 $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 416 Hedge Woundwort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 416 Hedge Woundwort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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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 $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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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 $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 420 Laciniated Red laver
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Sowerby Botany Plate 420 Laciniated Red laver
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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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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 $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 422 Lesser Broom-rape
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Sowerby Botany Plate 422 Lesser Broom-rape
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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 423 Purple Broom-rape
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Sowerby Botany Plate 423 Purple Broom-rape
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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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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 $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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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 $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 427 Hop
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 427 Hop
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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 429 Colts-foot
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 429 Colts-foot
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 430 Longer-stalked Butter-bur
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Sowerby Botany Plate 430 Longer-stalked Butter-bur
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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 431 Common Butter-bur
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Sowerby Botany Plate 431 Common Butter-bur
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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 432 Mealy-bordered Lichen
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Sowerby Botany Plate 432 Mealy-bordered Lichen
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 1797 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 433 Two-flowered Linnaea
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00Sowerby Botany Plate 433 Two-flowered Linnaea
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 435 Mouse-tail
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Sowerby Botany Plate 435 Mouse-tail
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 437 Purple Helleborine
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 437 Purple Helleborine
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 438 Barren-wort
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 438 Barren-wort
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 436 Amphibious Persicaria
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 436 Amphibious Persicaria
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00This original hand-colored engraving from English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth created in 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 439 Red-berried Bryony
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 439 Red-berried Bryony
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 441 Portland Spurge
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 441 Portland Spurge
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 442 Red Spurge
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 442 Red Spurge
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 443 Yellow Rocket
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 443 Yellow Rocket
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 444 Marsh Violet
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 444 Marsh 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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 446 Round-leaved Mint
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 446 Round-leaved Mint
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 448 Marsh Whorled Mint
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 448 Marsh Whorled Mint
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 449 Red Mint
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 449 Red Mint
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 450 Dotted Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 450 Dotted Lichen
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 452 Prickly Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 452 Prickly Lichen
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 453 Tuberous Moschatell
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 453 Tuberous Moschatell
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 454 Mossy Saxifrage, or Ladies’ Cushion
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 454 Mossy Saxifrage, or Ladies’ Cushion
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 458 Dwarf branched Centaury
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 458 Dwarf branched Centaury
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 455 Palmate Saxifrage
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 455 Palmate 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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 457 Ivy-leaved Lettuce
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 457 Ivy-leaved Lettuce
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 459 Cat’s-tail Canary-grass
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 459 Cat’s-tail Canary-grass
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 460 Serrated Phascum
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 460 Serrated Phascum
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 461 Ground Tremella
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 461 Ground Tremella
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 462 Sea Stock
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 462 Sea Stock
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 463 Prickly Chara
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 463 Prickly Chara
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 467 Common Grass-wrack
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Sowerby Botany Plate 467 Common Grass-wrack
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 468 Plantain Shore-weed
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Sowerby Botany Plate 468 Plantain Shore-weed
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 469 Alpine Ladies-smock
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 469 Alpine Ladies-smock
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 470 Hard Fescue-grass
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Sowerby Botany Plate 470 Hard Fescue-grass
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 471 Upright Brome-grass
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Sowerby Botany Plate 471 Upright Brome-grass
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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 472 Alipine Chickweed
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 472 Alipine 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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 473 Broad-leaved Chickweed
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 473 Broad-leaved 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 1798 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.