Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Gentiana Verna - Spring Gentian - F1

Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Gentiana Verna - Spring Gentian - F1"Gentiana Verna" 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

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Trifolium hybridum”

"Polygonum Fagopyrum"

"Modèles des Divers"

"Dianthus Deltoides"

This captivating artwork "Veduta della fonte e delle spelonche d'Egeria fuor della Porta Capena" is part of a collection by the renowned Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi

"Phragmites Vulgaris (Lam

He arrived in Paris around 1738 and studied engraving there

"View of Walasen"

"Juncus Biglumis"

"Lichen Candicans"

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