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Sowerby, James (1757-1822)

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Name
Sowerby, James (1757-1822)
Nationality
English
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Assets (548 in total)

William Curtis's Botanic Garden, Lambeth Marsh, Ante 1787, c.1787 (watercolour on Whatman paper)
Scots pine - Scotch fir or Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris. 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.
Eupatory sour - Agrimony, Agrimonia eupatoria. 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
Blue flowered borage, Borago officinalis
Blue flowered flax, Linum usitatissimum
William Curtis's Botanic Gardens, Lambeth Marsh, c.1787 (w/c on paper)
Common octopus, Octopus vulgaris (Eight-armed cuttlefish, Sepia octopus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects.
Purple starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa (Centauree hatchback, Centauree etoilee or Star Thistle) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1793.
Scarlet and yellow flowered greater Indian cress, Tropaeolum majus
Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica moschata, Myristica fragrans
Long-rooted turmeric, Curcuma longa
Leaves, yellow flower and nut of the common walnut tree, Juglans regia
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