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Red deadnettle, Lamium purpureum Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1800.

Sowerby, James (1757-1822)

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Valerian, Valeriana officinalis. Handcoloured lithograph by Charlotte Caroline Sowerby after an illustration by James Sowerby from Edward Hamilton's Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852.

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Bear grape or bearberry - Trailing arbutus or bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany,”” John Bohn, London, 1832

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Snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1793.

Sowerby, James (1757-1822)

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Common borage, Borago officinalis (Bourrache officinale) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1791.

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Greater knapweed, Centaurea scabiosa (Centauree scabieuse) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1792.

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Woad, Isatis tinctoria (Pastel des dyers ou guede) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1793.

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Large elderberry or black elderberry - Common black elder tree, Sambucus nigra. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany,”” John Bohn, London, 1832

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Yellow flowered snapdragon, Antirrhinum linaria

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White blossom and ripe fruit segment of the lemon tree, Citrus medica

Sowerby, James (1757-1822)

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Apic lavender. Hand-coloured copper engraving from a drawing by James Sowerby (1757-1822), in Botanique Medicinale, 1832, by William Woodville and Sir William Jackson. Blue flowered lavender, Lavandula spica. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany”” 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew over 2,500 plants for Smith's mammoth “” English Botany”” (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for “” Coloured Figures of English Fungi “” (1797) among many other works.

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Lizard orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum (Lizard satyrion or ochis, Satyrium hircinum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1791.

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Military orchis, Orchis militaris (Orchis warrior) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1791.

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Yellow or Welsh poppy, Papaver cambricum (yellow poppy). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1792.

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Giroselle of Virginia - American cowslip or Mead's dodecatheon, Dodecatheon meadia. Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787.

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Soda brulee - Prickly saltwort, Kali turgida. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany,”” John Bohn, London, 1832

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Sabine juniper - Common savin or juniper savin, Juniperus sabina. Taken from an illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “Medical Botany.”” Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835).

Sowerby, James (1757-1822)