Antique Print - James Sowerby - Trichostomum Capillaceum - haircap Moss - F1

Antique Print - James Sowerby - Trichostomum Capillaceum - haircap Moss - F1"Trichostomum Capillaceum" 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

" Stenskvätta

Variegat (Hort: Versch) Para

"Le Titre a Queue Fourche

Platanthera Bifolia Rich

This bird print is from William Swaysland’s ”A History of the Earth and Animated Nature”

The play of light and shadow enhances the depth and atmosphere of the work

street names

”Svärdslilja

Parnassia Palustris”

"Satyrium Repens"

«Smilax Longifolia

Lycopsis Arvensis L”