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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 942 Common Thale-Cress

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 942 Common Thale-Cress

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 945 Hare’s-ear Treacle-Mustard

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 945 Hare’s-ear Treacle-Mustard

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 943 Worm-seed, Treacle-Mustard

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 943 Worm-seed, Treacle-Mustard

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 944 Glarlic Treacle-Mustard, Jack-by-the-hedge, Sauce-alone

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 944 Glarlic Treacle-Mustard, Jack-by-the-hedge, Sauce-alone

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 950 Wild Navew, Rape, Cole-Seed

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 950 Wild Navew, Rape, Cole-Seed

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 958 Fine-leaved Mustard, Wall Rocket

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 958 Fine-leaved Mustard, Wall 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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 959 Sand Mustard, Sand Rocket

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 959 Sand Mustard, Sand 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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 960 Wild Radish, Jointed Charlock

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 960 Wild Radish, Jointed Charlock

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 962 Hemlock-leaved Heron’s-bill

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 962 Hemlock-leaved Heron’s-bill

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 964 Sea-side Heron’s-bill

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 964 Sea-side Heron’s-bill

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 970 Shining Crane’s-bill

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 970 Shining Crane’s-bill

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 972 Sof Dove’s-foot Crane’s-bill

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 972 Sof Dove’s-foot Crane’s-bill

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 973 Round-leaved Crane’s-bill

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 973 Round-leaved Crane’s-bill

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 974 Small-flowered Crane’s-bill

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 974 Small-flowered Crane’s-bill

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 975 Jagged-leaved Crane’s-bill

    $16.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 975 Jagged-leaved Crane’s-bill

    $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 1838 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1451 Common Club-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1451 Common Club-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1452 Interrupted Club-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1452 Interrupted Club-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1455 Savine-leaved alpine Club-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1455 Savine-leaved alpine Club-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1453 Marsh Club-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1453 Marsh Club-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1454 Lesser alpine Club-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1454 Lesser alpine Club-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1456 Fir Club-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1456 Fir Club-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1458 Creeping Pill-wort

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1458 Creeping Pill-wort

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1460 Blunt-topped Horse-tail

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1460 Blunt-topped Horse-tail

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1464 Marsh Horse-tail

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1464 Marsh Horse-tail

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1465 Rough Horse-tail

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1465 Rough Horse-tail

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1466 Variegated rough Horse-tail

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1466 Variegated rough Horse-tail

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1467 Translucent Nitella

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1467 Translucent Nitella

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1468 Flaccid Nitella

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1468 Flaccid Nitella

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1469 Clustered Nitella

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1469 Clustered Nitella

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1470 Slender Nitella

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1470 Slender Nitella

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1471 Common Chara

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1471 Common Chara

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1473 Beautiful Chara

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1473 Beautiful Chara

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1474 Rough Chara

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1474 Rough Chara

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1475 Hispid Chara

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1475 Hispid Chara

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1480 Pale-leaved Thread Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1480 Pale-leaved Thread Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1479 Long-stalked Thread Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1479 Long-stalked Thread Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1481 Slender-branched Thread Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1481 Slender-branched Thread Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1483 Soft-leaved shining Thread Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1483 Soft-leaved shining Thread Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1484 Pale glaucous Thread Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1484 Pale glaucous Thread Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1486 (alternate) Zierian Thread-Moss, Slender proliferous Thread-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1486 (alternate) Zierian Thread-Moss, Slender proliferous Thread-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1487 Slender Thread-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1487 Slender Thread-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1496 Dusky Thread-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1496 Dusky Thread-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1515 Short-beaked water Feather-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1515 Short-beaked water Feather-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1517 Sharp Fern-like Feather-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1517 Sharp Fern-like Feather-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1518 Don’s Feather-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1518 Don’s Feather-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1519 Long-headed Feather-Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1519 Long-headed Feather-Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1524 Green matted Feather Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1524 Green matted Feather Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.

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  • Sowerby Botany Plate 1525 Soft water Thread Moss

    $14.50 – $270.00

    Sowerby Botany Plate 1525 Soft water Thread Moss

    $14.50 – $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 1841 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.