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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 304 Common Maple
Sowerby Botany Plate 304 Common Maple
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 305 Reverfed Lichen
Sowerby Botany Plate 305 Reverfed Lichen
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 306 Oval-Spiked, or Naked Carex
Sowerby Botany Plate 306 Oval-Spiked, or Naked Carex
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 307 Great Carex
Sowerby Botany Plate 307 Great Carex
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 308 Corn Adonis, or Pheasant’s-eye
Sowerby Botany Plate 308 Corn Adonis, or Pheasant’s-eye
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 309 Bulbiferous Coral-wort
Sowerby Botany Plate 309 Bulbiferous Coral-wort
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 310 Dwarf Cornel
Sowerby Botany Plate 310 Dwarf Cornel
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 311 Alpine Cotton-grass
Sowerby Botany Plate 311 Alpine Cotton-grass
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 312 Small Bind-weed
Sowerby Botany Plate 312 Small Bind-weed
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 315 Perennial Darnel, or Rye-grass
Sowerby Botany Plate 315 Perennial Darnel, or Rye-grass
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 313 Great Bind-weed
Sowerby Botany Plate 313 Great Bind-weed
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 314 Sea Bind-weed
Sowerby Botany Plate 314 Sea Bind-weed
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 316 Crested Dog’s-tail Grass
Sowerby Botany Plate 316 Crested Dog’s-tail Grass
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 317 Deptford Pink
Sowerby Botany Plate 317 Deptford Pink
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 318 Moonwort
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 318 Moonwort
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 319 Cranberry
Sowerby Botany Plate 319 Cranberry
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 320 Dyer’s-weed, or Yellow-weed
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 320 Dyer’s-weed, or Yellow-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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 321 Wild Mignonette, or Base Rocket
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 321 Wild Mignonette, or Base Rocket
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 322 Dusky Cranebill
Sowerby Botany Plate 322 Dusky Cranebill
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 323 Fennel-leaved Pond-weed
Sowerby Botany Plate 323 Fennel-leaved Pond-weed
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 324 Granulated Tremella
Sowerby Botany Plate 324 Granulated Tremella
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 325 Great Navel-wort
Sowerby Botany Plate 325 Great Navel-wort
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 326 Lesser Water Plantain
Sowerby Botany Plate 326 Lesser Water Plantain
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 327 Naked-stalked Candy-tuft
Sowerby Botany Plate 327 Naked-stalked Candy-tuft
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 328 Matted Sea Lavender
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 328 Matted Sea Lavender
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 331 Mealy Guelder-rose, or Way-faring Tree
Sowerby Botany Plate 331 Mealy Guelder-rose, or Way-faring Tree
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 332 Common Guelder-rose, or Water Elder
Sowerby Botany Plate 332 Common Guelder-rose, or Water Elder
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 329 Leafy Buxbaumia
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 329 Leafy Buxbaumia
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 330 Crooked Phascum
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 330 Crooked 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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 333 Upright warty Spurge
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 333 Upright warty Spurge
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 334 Common Vetch
Sowerby Botany Plate 334 Common Vetch
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 335 Rough Cock’s-foot Grass
Sowerby Botany Plate 335 Rough Cock’s-foot Grass
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 336 Common Chara
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 336 Common 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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 337 Mountain Ash, or Quicken Tree
Sowerby Botany Plate 337 Mountain Ash, or Quicken Tree
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 338 Field Southernwood
Sowerby Botany Plate 338 Field Southernwood
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 339 Common Asparagus
Sowerby Botany Plate 339 Common Asparagus
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 340 Common Quaking-Grass, or Cow-Quakes
Sowerby Botany Plate 340 Common Quaking-Grass, or Cow-Quakes
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 341 Pearly Lichen
Sowerby Botany Plate 341 Pearly Lichen
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 342 Yellow twisting Bryum
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 342 Yellow twisting Bryum
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 343 Saffron, or Autumnal Crocus
Sowerby Botany Plate 343 Saffron, or Autumnal Crocus
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 344 Spring Crocus
Sowerby Botany Plate 344 Spring Crocus
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 347 Parsley Water-dropwort
Sowerby Botany Plate 347 Parsley Water-dropwort
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 348 Sulphur-wort Water-dropwort
Sowerby Botany Plate 348 Sulphur-wort Water-dropwort
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 345 Blackish, or Bat’s-wing Lichen
Sowerby Botany Plate 345 Blackish, or Bat’s-wing Lichen
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 346 Narrow-leaved Marsh Willow-herb
Sowerby Botany Plate 346 Narrow-leaved Marsh Willow-herb
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Plate 349 Shrubby Hawkweed
Plate 349 Shrubby Hawkweed
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 350 Service Tree
Sowerby Botany Plate 350 Service Tree
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 1796 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 351 Annual Knawel
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 351 Annual Knawel
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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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.