Antique Print - James Sowerby - Hedypnois Taraxici - Common Hawkweed - F1 Nigritella Nigra”

Nigritella Nigra”

The Guinea Fowl"

5” x 10” inches / 32 cm x 24

Around 15 years later he set up a partnership with his brother in law Hondius and issued further editions of the Mercator/Hondius atlas

"Bidens Tripartita"

Antique Print - James Sowerby - Hedypnois Taraxici - Common Hawkweed - F1 Nigritella Nigra”"Hedypnois Taraxici" 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