Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Bryonia Dioica - White Bryony - F1

Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Bryonia Dioica - White Bryony - F1"Bryonia Dioica" 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

The atlas is renowned for its detailed copperplate engravings

"View of Jönköping"

"Grimmia Splachnoides"

"Hypochoeris Maculata L

"Veronica Montana"

16 cm x 21 cm

”Linkoping Cathedral”

"Agrostis Panicea"

from the edition of an unknown size

This hand-coloured map is from Alfred Harmsworth’s "The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer

«Judicum XVI Simfon door Delila verraden & Judicum XVI Simfon wreekt zich over fyne vianden in zyn Doodt»

The engraving was created by the artist and published in London around 1850