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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 485 Oak Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 485 Oak 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 486 Bloody-specked Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 486 Bloody-specked 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 487 Yellow hoary Mullein
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 487 Yellow hoary Mullein
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 488 Streaked Field Garlick
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Sowerby Botany Plate 488 Streaked Field Garlick
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 489 Common Bugle
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 489 Common Bugle
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 490 Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 490 Opposite-leaved Golden 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 491 Naked-flowering Crocus
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Sowerby Botany Plate 491 Naked-flowering Crocus
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 492 Hairy Ladies’ – Smock
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 492 Hairy 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 493 Spring Gentian
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 493 Spring 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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 494 Narrow-leaved Helleborine
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 494 Narrow-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 1798 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 495 Common Buckbean
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 495 Common Buckbean
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 496 Common Holly
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 496 Common Holly
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 497 Pitted Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 497 Pitted 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 498 Saffron-coloured Lichen
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Sowerby Botany Plate 498 Saffron-coloured 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 499 Spiked Star of Bethlehem
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 499 Spiked Star of Bethlehem
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 500 White Saxifrage
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 500 White 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 501 Rue-leaved Saxifrage
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Sowerby Botany Plate 501 Rue-leaved 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 502 Ivy-leaved Snapdragon
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 502 Ivy-leaved Snapdragon
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 503 Hemisphaerical Marchantia
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 503 Hemisphaerical Marchantia
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 504 Conical Marchantia
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 504 Conical Marchantia
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 577 Reddish Bastard-Balm
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 577 Reddish 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 578 Yellow Water-Iris
Price range: $32.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 578 Yellow Water-Iris
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 579 Great Carex
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 579 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 580 Slender-spiked Carex
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 580 Slender-spiked 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 581 Great Bilberry
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 581 Great Bilberry
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 582 Grey Tree Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 582 Grey Tree 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 584 Pile-wort
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 584 Pile-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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 585 Sheep’s Fescue-grass
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 585 Sheep’s 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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 586 Common Whitlow-grass
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 586 Common Whitlow-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 1799 by James Sowerby illustrates plants.
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Sowerby Botany Plate 583 Apple Rose
Price range: $32.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 583 Apple Rose
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 587 Hairy Tower-Mustard
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 587 Hairy Tower-Mustard
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 588 Yellow Fumitory
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 588 Yellow Fumitory
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 589 Common Fumitory
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 589 Common Fumitory
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 590 Small-flowered Fumitory
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 590 Small-flowered Fumitory
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 591 Common Henbane
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 591 Common Henbane
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 592 Dwale, or Deadly Nightshade
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 592 Dwale, or Deadly Nightshade
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 593 Grey cloudy Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 593 Grey cloudy 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 594 Clustered water Lichen
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Sowerby Botany Plate 594 Clustered water 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 595 Quadrangular Lichen
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 595 Quadrangular 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 596 Stinking Iris
Price range: $24.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 596 Stinking Iris
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 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 597 Common Ladies Mantle
Price range: $16.50 through $270.00
Sowerby Botany Plate 597 Common Ladies Mantle
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 598 Red Whortle-berry
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Sowerby Botany Plate 598 Red Whortle-berry
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 599 Alpine Saw-Wort
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
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 601 Great White Ox-eye
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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
Price range: $32.50 through $270.00
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
Price range: $18.50 through $270.00
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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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.