Antique Print - James Sowerby - Poa Trivialis - Roughish Meadow-grass - F1

Antique Print - James Sowerby - Poa Trivialis - Roughish Meadow-grass - F1"Poa Trivialis" 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. The reverse side of this engraving is blank. The text page on the third picture, below, is an original page from this work with original description

"View of Hammarskog"

"Festuca Myurus"

" which presented the stories from the Old and New Testaments in an illustrative and accessible manner for readers

"Pulsatilla Vulgaris Mill"

fig Schets der Grafsteden van Binnen"

"Carex Fylvatica"

Eastern Part"

as Originally Published

Smillie gained recognition for his skillful renderings of landscapes

Sieglingia Decumbens”

"Agrostis Panicea"

"Baye of Livorno"