Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Sisymbrium Sophia - Flix-weed - F1

Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Sisymbrium Sophia - Flix-weed - F1"Sisymbrium Sophia" 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

"Bryum Aureum"

"Facade of the XIII Plan of an Lonic Building of 56 Toises"

Iris pseudacorus”

"Façade et Coupe du XVI Plan d'un Bâtiment Dorique de 32

"XII Developpement pour un Bâtiment de douse Toires de fisce dans wuvre sur quatorze de profondeur"

"Lichen Horizontalis"

Ringkedja och Fishmåk” (“The Lesser Black-backed Gull

Magnus von Wright (1805 - 68) was the first taxidermist working with the vertebrate collections of Helsinki University

Vincent Brooks was a renowned lithographer and publisher who operated actively in the 19th century in London

The work was drawn and lithographed by the artists Peter Åkerlund and

”Snögräs

"Mentha Rubra"