Antique Print - James Sowerby - Bryum Hygrometricum - Yellow Twisting Bryum - F1 "Lichen Roccella"

"Lichen Roccella"

"Valeriana Officinalis"

"Ligusticum Cornubiense"

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

"A Species of the Calao and The Spoonbill"

Antique Print - James Sowerby - Bryum Hygrometricum - Yellow Twisting Bryum - F1 "Lichen Roccella""Bryum Hygrometricum" 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