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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 599 Alpine Saw-Wort
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Sowerby Botany Plate 599 Alpine 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 600 Inelegant Ragwort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 600 Inelegant Ragwort
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 601 Great White Ox-eye
Price range: $32.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 601 Great White Ox-eye
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 602 Corn Chamomile
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Sowerby Botany Plate 602 Corn Chamomile
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 603 Grey Stone Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 603 Grey Stone 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 604 Purple Rock Lichen
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Sowerby Botany Plate 604 Purple Rock 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 606 Triangular-sheathed Jungermannia
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 606 Triangular-sheathed Jungermannia
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 607 Fringed Jungermannia
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Sowerby Botany Plate 607 Fringed Jungermannia
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 608 Creeping Jungemannia
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Sowerby Botany Plate 608 Creeping Jungemannia
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 605 Lanceolate Jungermannia
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Sowerby Botany Plate 605 Lanceolate Jungermannia
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 609 Upright Pearlwort
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Sowerby Botany Plate 609 Upright Pearlwort
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 610 Lime or Linden-tree
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 610 Lime or Linden-tree
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 611 Greater Meadow-rue
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Sowerby Botany Plate 611 Greater 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 612 Traveller’s Joy
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Sowerby Botany Plate 612 Traveller’s Joy
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 613 Stinking Hellebore
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Sowerby Botany Plate 613 Stinking Hellebore
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 614 Bristol Rock-Cress
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Sowerby Botany Plate 614 Bristol Rock-Cress
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 615 Fingered Carex
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Sowerby Botany Plate 615 Fingered Carex
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 616 Three-branched Polypody
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 616 Three-branched Polypody
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 617 Crisped Hypnum
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 617 Crisped Hypnum
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 618 Curled Clustered Phascum
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 618 Curled Clustered Phascum
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 619 Sweet Violet
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 619 Sweet Violet
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 620 Dog’s Violet
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Sowerby Botany Plate 620 Dog’s Violet
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 621 Summer Snowflake
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Sowerby Botany Plate 621 Summer Snowflake
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 622 Common Fritillary
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 622 Common Fritillary
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 623 Germander Speedwell
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 623 Germander 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 624 Wood Crowfoot
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 624 Wood Crowfoot
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 625 Drawf Hypnum
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 625 Drawf Hypnum
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 626 Moss Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 626 Moss 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 627 Waxy Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 627 Waxy 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 628 Small Marsh Valerian
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Sowerby Botany Plate 628 Small Marsh Valerian
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 629 Grey Carex
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 629 Grey Carex
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 630 Great Leopard’s-bane
Price range: $24.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 630 Great Leopard’s-bane
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 631 Early Purple Orchis
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 631 Early Purple 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 632 Spotted Palmate Orchis
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 632 Spotted Palmate 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 633 Sea Goosefoot
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 633 Sea Goosefoot
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 638 Purple Goat’s-beard
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Sowerby Botany Plate 638 Purple Goat’s-beard
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 634 Prickly Saltwort
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 634 Prickly Saltwort
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 635 Shrubby Saltwort
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 635 Shrubby Saltwort
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 636 Purple and white Bastard-Balm
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 636 Purple and white Bastard-Balm
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 637 Sea Cabbage
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Sowerby Botany Plate 637 Sea Cabbage
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 639 Procumbent Water Parsnep
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Sowerby Botany Plate 639 Procumbent Water Parsnep
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 640 Saltwort Fucus
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Sowerby Botany Plate 640 Saltwort Fucus
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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 641 Purplish Laver
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Sowerby Botany Plate 641 Purplish 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 642 Pipe Laver
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Sowerby Botany Plate 642 Pipe 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 643 Long-rough-headed Poppy
Price range: $32.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 643 Long-rough-headed 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 644 Long-smooth-headed Poppy
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Sowerby Botany Plate 644 Long-smooth-headed 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 645 Common Red Poppy
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Sowerby Botany Plate 645 Common Red 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 646 Sea Stork’s-bill
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 646 Sea Stork’s-bill
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 1799 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.