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Onagraceae - Epilobium montanum From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith. London, R. Taylor, J. Sowerby, etc., 1803, volume 17, plate 1177. Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 130 x 226 mm; impression 92 x 169 mm). Text enclosed. € 35
One of the most celebrated of all British floras is Sowerby’s English
botany. This periodical publication, issued in 267 numbers, and
published in thirty-six volumes between 1790 and 1814, contains 2,592
beautifully coloured illustrations of plants most of which are drawn and
engraved by James Sowerby. The plates are accompanied by descriptive
letterpress written by the eminent botanist James Edward Smith, … (Henrey
II p. 141). James Sowerby, who was the first of several members of this
family who became noted as authors and illustrators of books on natural
history, lived from 1757-1822. He studied painting at the Royal Academy,
and soon turned to botanical illustration. His first work was for William
Curtis’s Flora londinensis and his Botanical magazine.* Pritzel 8789; Dunthorne 291; Blunt pp. 190-192; Nissen BBI 2225; Great flower books p. 76; Hunt 717; Henrey 1366; Stafleu & Cowan 12.221.
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