FLO4702127: Laurier sauce. Hand-coloured copper engraving from a drawing by James Sowerby (1757-1822), in Botanique Medicinale, 1832, by William Woodville and Sir William Jackson. Yellow flowered sweet bay leaves and berry, Laurus nobilis. 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., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702132: Botanical board: Cultivating garlic (Allium sativum) showing bulb, leaves and purple flowers. Hand-coloured copper engraving from an illustration by James Sowerby. Excerpt from the book of William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker “” Botanique medicinale”” 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew more than 2500 plants for Smith Mammoth “English Botanical”” (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for colourful representations of English mushrooms” (1797) among many other works., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4599793: Anemone of the drill bits - Snowdrop anemone, Anemone sylvestris. Taken from an illustration by James Sowerby in William Curtis' “Botanical Magazine.”” 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) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4730025: Common benoite or grass of Saint Benoit - Wood avens, Geum urbanum. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4730125: Marshmallow officinale or wild or white purple marshmallow, Althaea officinalis. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4730200: Purgative or cathartic buckthorn - Purging buckthorn, Rhamnus catharticus. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4730202: Balsam of Mecca or Balsam of Galaad - Balsam of Mecca, Commiphora gileadensis. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4730547: Black doradilla or false capillary (fern) - Common maidenhair fern or spleenwort, Asplenium trichomanes. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4730664: Common or European meleze - European larch tree, Larix decidua. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4730700: Ache false watercress - Creeping water parsnip, Sium nodiflorum. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4730839: Sandalwood - Indian sandalwood, Santalum album. Vulnerable. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729614: Putty tree or lentiscus pistachio - Putty tree, Pistacia lentiscus. 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. 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., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729880: Variete of fabacee (leguminous) - Red sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalinus. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images