Antique Print - Sowerby - Fucus Ruscifolius - Blunt Tongue-bearing Fucus - F1

Antique Print - Sowerby - Fucus Ruscifolius - Blunt Tongue-bearing Fucus - F1"Fucus Ruscifolius" 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

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"Stock Dove"

"Satyrium Repens"

This wonderful chromolithograph is from Charles Antoine Lemaire’s ”L’illustration Horticole

Ängsnejlika

Rubus Saxatilis”

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

James Sowerby

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Piranesi's meticulous attention to detail and his skill in capturing the intricate architectural elements are evident in this artwork

which became one of the leading lithographic companies of its time

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