FLO4569856: Rush lily, Sowerbaea juncea, native to Australia. Named for the botanical artist James Sowerby. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's “Herbier General de l'Amateur,” Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was published from 1810 to 1827 and edited by Mordant de Launay and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps. Bessa (1772-1830s), along with Redoute and Turpin, is considered one of the greatest English botanical artists of the 19th century., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578215: Ladanifere or Ledon Cistus - Lithography by James Sowerby (1757-1822), from the Botanical Magazine by William Curtis (1746-1799), 1790 (England) - Gum cistus or rock rose, Cistus x cyprius (Cistus ladaniferus) - Handcolored copperplate engraving from an illustration by James Sowerby from W. Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine,”” Lambeth, London, 1790, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578227: Orchid: calopogon tuberus - Lithography by James Sowerby (1757-1822), from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1746-1799), 1790 (England) - Bletia purpurea orchid. (Tuberous-rooted limodorum orchid, Limodorum tuberosum) - Handcolored copperplate engraving from an illustration by James Sowerby from W. Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine,”” Lambeth, London, 1790, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578240: Incomparable Narcissus - Lithography by James Sowerby (1757-1822), from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1746-1799), 1790 (England) - Peerless daffodil, Narcissus incomparabilis - Handcolored copperplate engraving from an illustration by James Sowerby from W. Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine,” Lambeth,” London, 1790, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4580241: Pink lily variete - Pink striped trumpet lily, Crinum latifolium (Molucca crinum, Crinum moluccanum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by James Sowerby from Samuel Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine,”” London, 1822., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4583809: American browallie - Jamaican forget-me-not, amethyst flower, or bush violet, Browallia americana (Tall browallia, Browallia elata). Handcolured copperplate engraving and botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4585701: Perfumee grenadilla (or refresco maracuja) - (Winged passionflower, Passiflora alata. Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4586253: Gazania (gazania) steep - Lithography by James Sowerby (1757-1822), from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1746-1799), 1789 (England) - Rigid leaved gorteria, Gazania rigens (Gorteria rigens) - Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine,” Lambeth, London, 1789, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702032: Compendial borage. 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 borage, Borago officinalis. 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
FLO4702054: Melisse officinale (Melissa officinalis). 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
FLO4702080: Sweet fennel (or Provence fennel). Hand-coloured copper engraving from a drawing by James Sowerby (1757-1822), in Botanique Medicinale, 1832, by William Woodville and Sir William Jackson. Fennel, Anethum foeniculum, spice. 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