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Virginia polygale or milk grass - Senega, Polygala senega. 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)

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Perennial clematite - Upright virgins bower, Clematis recta. 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)

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Saxifrage granulee or bulbbles - White saxifrage, Saxifraga granulata. 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)

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White mahogany or marupa - Simaruba, Simarouba amara. 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)

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Copaier - Balsam of Copaiva, Copaifera 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)

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White or common fir tree - Silver fir tree, Abies alba. 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)

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Cascarille officinale or soft wood or faux quinquina - Cascarilla, Croton eluteria. 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)

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Semen contra or semencine or sagebrush of Judee - Santonica, Artemisia cina. 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)

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Common polypoda or wood liquorice (fern) - Common polypody, Polypodium vulgare. 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)

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Lichen variete - Ash-coloured ground liverwort, Lichen caninus. 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)

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Botanical board: leaves, plants and walnut fruit Leaves, yellow flower and nut of the common walnut tree, Juglans regia. 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)

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Phellandrium aquatium - Fine-leaved water hemlock, Phellandrium aquatium. 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)

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Benzoin or Imperatory - Common masterwort, Imperatoria ostruthium. 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)

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Sweet bitter or sweet bitter nightshade - Woody nightshade, Solanum dulcamara. 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)

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Scamonee - Scammony bindweed, Convolvulus scammonia. 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)

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Immortelle star - Helichrysum stellatum (Compact flowering gnaphalium, Gnaphalium congestum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by James Sowerby from Samuel Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine,”” London, 1822.

Sowerby, James (1757-1822)

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Mignonette Aster - Felicia tenella (Brisly-leaved aster, Aster tenellus). Handcolured copperplate engraving and botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787.

Sowerby, James (1757-1822)

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Variete of calceolar - Pinnated slipper-wort, Calceolaria pinnata. Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787.

Sowerby, James (1757-1822)

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Common carnation, flower carnation or clove carnation - Franklin's tartar, scarlet bizarre carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus. Handcolured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787.

Sowerby, James (1757-1822)