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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 235 Least Gentianella
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 235 Least Gentianella
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 237 Field Gentian
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 237 Field Gentian
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 238 Jointed Rush
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 238 Jointed Rush
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 239 Marsh Club-moss
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 239 Marsh Club-moss
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 240 Lanceolate Spleenwort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 240 Lanceolate Spleenwort
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 241 Small-flowered Mallow
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 241 Small-flowered Mallow
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 242 Bastard-Cyperus Carex
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 242 Bastard-Cyperus Carex
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 245 Map Lichen
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 245 Map Lichen
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 246 Concentric Lichen
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 246 Concentric Lichen
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 247 Bastard Toad-flax
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 247 Bastard Toad-flax
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 248 Procumbent Pepper-wort
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 248 Procumbent Pepper-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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 251 Floated branched Riccia
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 251 Floated branched Riccia
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 252 Fringed Riccia
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 252 Fringed Riccia
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 253 Greater Hooded – Milfoil
Sowerby Botany Plate 253 Greater Hooded – Milfoil
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 254 Lesser Hooded – Milfoil
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 254 Lesser Hooded – Milfoil
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 255 Sea Arrow – Grass
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 255 Sea Arrow – 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 257 Stringy Lichen
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 257 Stringy Lichen
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 258 Jointed Lichen
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 258 Jointed Lichen
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 260 Deforned Yellow Toad-flax
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 260 Deforned Yellow Toad-flax
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 261 Shrubby Orache, or Sea Purslane
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 261 Shrubby Orache, or Sea Purslane
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 262 Alpine Meadow-rue
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 262 Alpine 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 263 Pellucid Laver
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 263 Pellucid 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 264 Upright Hypnum
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 264 Upright 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 265 Cylindrical Hypnum
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 265 Cylindrical 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 266 Hollowed Lichen
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 266 Hollowed Lichen
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 271 White Helleborine
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 271 White 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 269 Broad-leaved Helleborine
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 269 Broad-leaved 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 270 Marsh Helleborine
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 270 Marsh 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 274 Purple Mountain Milkwort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 274 Purple Mountain Milkwort
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 276 Pale Narcissus, or Primrose peerless
Price range: $32.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 276 Pale Narcissus, or Primrose peerless
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 280 Angular Solomon’s – Seal
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 280 Angular Solomon’s – Seal
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 281 Forked Jungermannia
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 281 Forked 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 285 Sea Beet
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 285 Sea Beet
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 286 Motherwort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 286 Motherwort
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 287 Dotted Targionia
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 287 Dotted Targionia
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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 288 Socket Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 288 Socket 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 1795 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 289 Creeping Satyroin
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 289 Creeping Satyroin
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 290 Mat-grass
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 290 Mat-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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 291 Night-flowering Catchfly
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 291 Night-flowering Catchfly
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 292 Hyssop-leaved Grass-poly
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 292 Hyssop-leaved Grass-poly
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 293 Ball-bearing Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 293 Ball-bearing 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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 295 Perforated St. John’s Wort
Price range: $20.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 295 Perforated St. John’s Wort
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 299 Reticulated Sphearocarpus
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 299 Reticulated Sphearocarpus
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 301 Common Golden-rod
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Sowerby Botany Plate 301 Common Golden-rod
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 303 Greater Maple, or Sycamore
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 303 Greater Maple, or Sycamore
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 304 Common Maple
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 304 Common Maple
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 306 Oval-Spiked, or Naked Carex
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 306 Oval-Spiked, or Naked 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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 307 Great Carex
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 307 Great 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 1796 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.