Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Drosera Anglica - Great Sun-dew - F1

Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Drosera Anglica - Great Sun-dew - F1"Drosera Anglica" This original hand coloured engraving is from James Sowerby's English Botany or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms and Places of Growth, published by J. Davis in London in 1790 1814. First edition of the extensively illustrated botanical series. James Sowerby was an English naturalist and illustrator born in 1757 and died in 1822. He is best known for his extensive work in botanical

Ophrys Muscifera Huds”

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Sagina subulata Pres”

Tofieldia Palustris Huds”

Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847 - 1909) was a prominent British ornithologist and author

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When he married the daughter of the cartographer Jodocus Hondius he also set up a business as a book publisher in Amsterdam

the street artist Invader

Detail studies include doorways

Saxifraga Groenlandica”

"Lichen Limbatus"

with their Essential Characters