Antique Print - James Sowerby - Pulmonaria Maritima - Sea Lungwort - F1

Antique Print - James Sowerby - Pulmonaria Maritima - Sea Lungwort - F1"Pulmonaria Maritima" 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

"Impatiens Noli Me Tangere"

First state of 5 (I/V)

"Stjärtand

"Lichen Immerfus"

"Åkerklätt

"Carex Incurva"

one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ

"Eriophorum Alpinum"

and other notable landmarks

monasteries

nearly all of which he both designed and engraved

Petasites Frigidus”