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James Sowerby's English Botany (1860s)

Original hand-coloured lithographs over 150 years old

Sheet size: approximately 6.25 x 9.75 inches

James Sowerby
James Sowerby
—painted by Thomas Heaphy (1816)
 

Having decided to become a painter of flowers his first venture was with William Curtis, whose Flora Londinensis he illustrated. Sowerby studied art at the Royal Academy and took an apprenticeship with Richard Wright.

An early commission for Sowerby was to lead to his prominence in the field when the botanist, L'Hértier de Brutelle invited Sowerby to provide the plates for his monograph, Geranologia, and two later works. He also came to the notice of William Curtis, who was undertaking a new type of publication. Early volumes of the first British botany journal, The Botanical Magazine, contained seventy of his works.

In 1790, he began the first of several huge projects: a 36-volume work on the botany of England that was published over the next 24 years, contained 2592 hand-coloured engravings and became known as Sowerby's English Botany. An enormous number of plants were to receive their formal publication, but the authority for these came from the unattributed text written by James Edward Smith.


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Forster's Stone-crop

Forster's Stone-crop

Sedum Fosterianum
PLATE 537
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typical light browning around paper's edges, some foxing
Common Naval-wort

Common Naval-wort

Cotyledon Umbilicus
PLATE 537
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typical light browning around paper's edges, some foxing
Alpine clustered Saxifrage

Alpine clustered Saxifrage

Saxifraga nivalis
PLATE 541
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typical light browning around paper's edges, some foxing
Kidney-leaved London Pride

Kidney-leaved London Pride

Saxifraga Geum
PLATE 543
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typical light browning around paper's edges, some foxing
Kidney-leaved London Pride

Kidney-leaved London Pride

Saxifraga Geum, var. serrata
PLATE 544
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typical light browning around paper's edges, some foxing
Kidney-leaved London Pride

Kidney-leaved London Pride

Saxifraga Geum, var. elegans
PLATE 545
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typical light browning around paper's edges, some foxing
Common London Pride

Common London Pride

Saxifraga umbrosa, var. serratifolia
PLATE 548
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typical light browning around paper's edges, some foxing
Yellow Mountain Saxifrage

Yellow Mountain Saxifrage

Saxifraga aizoides
PLATE 551
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Rue-leaved Saxifrage

Rue-leaved Saxifrage

Saxifraga tridactylites
PLATE 552
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Alpine Brook Saxifrage

Alpine Brook Saxifrage

Saxifraga rivularis
PLATE 553
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typical light browning around paper's edges, light foxing
Drooping Alpine Saxifrage

Drooping Alpine Saxifrage

Saxifraga cernus
PLATE 554
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typical light browning around paper's edges, some foxing
Tufted Saxifrage

Tufted Saxifrage

Saxifraga caespitosa
PLATE 556
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typical light browning around paper's edges, some foxing
Palmate-leaved Mossy Saxifrage

Palmate-leaved Mossy Saxifrage

Saxifraga decipiens
PLATE 557
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Irish Mossy Saxifrage

Irish Mossy Saxifrage

Saxifraga hirta, var. genuina
PLATE 559
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Irish Mossy Saxifrage

Irish Mossy Saxifrage

Saxifraga hirta, var. affinis
PLATE 560
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Mossy Saxifrage

Mossy Saxifrage

Saxifraga eu-hypnoides, var. platypetala
PLATE 561
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Mossy Saxifrage

Mossy Saxifrage

Saxifraga eu-hypnoides, var. gemmifera
PLATE 562
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Opposite-leaved Golden-Saxifrage

Opposite-leaved Golden-Saxifrage

Chrysosplenium oppositifolium
PLATE 563
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Alternate-leaved Golden-Saxifrage

Alternate-leaved Golden-Saxifrage

Chrysosplenium alternifolium
PLATE 564
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typical light browning around paper's edges, light foxing
Marsh Pennywort

Marsh Pennywort

Hydrocotyle vulgaris
PLATE 566
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typical light browning around paper's edges, light foxing
Greater Astrantis

Greater Astrantis

Astrantia major
PLATE 567
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typical light browning around paper's edges, light foxing
Wood Sanicle

Wood Sanicle

Sanicula Europaea
PLATE 568
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typical light browning around paper's edges, light foxing
Field Eryngo

Field Eryngo

Eryngium campstre
PLATE 570
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Water Hemlock

Water Hemlock

Cicuta virosat
PLATE 571
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Wild Celery

Wild Celery

Apium graveolens
PLATE 572
typical light browning around paper's edges
Procumbent Water-parsnip

Procumbent Water-parsnip

Helosciadium nodiflorum, var. repens
PLATE 574
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typical light browning around paper's edges, light foxing
Least Water-parsnip

Least Water-parsnip

Helosciadium inundatum
PLATE 575
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Common Parsley

Common Parsley

Petroselinum sativum
PLATE 576
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typical light browning around paper's edges, light foxing
Glabrous Stonewort

Glabrous Stonewort

Trinia vulgaria
PLATE 579
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Common Goutweed

Common Goutweed

Aegopodium Podagraria
PLATE 580
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typical light browning around paper's edges, edge/corner wear, short repaired tear at top
Worled Caraway

Worled Caraway

Carum verticillatum
PLATE 581
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typical light browning around paper's edges
Common Caraway

Common Caraway

Carum carui
PLATE 582
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typical light browning around paper's edges, light foxing
Common Earth-nut

Common Earth-nut

Bunium flexuosum
PLATE 584
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typical light browning around paper's edges
          
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