Antique Print - Sowerby - Hypericum Maculatum - Spotted St. John's Wort - F1

Antique Print - Sowerby - Hypericum Maculatum - Spotted St. John's Wort - F1"Hypericum Maculatum" 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

The work is published in Amsterdam

He hailed from the small town of Cento in the province of Ferrara

This beautiful hand-colored antique engraving was created by Carl Joseph Meyer

Influenced by New York's graffiti and skateboard cultures

This antique map is from Joseph Roux’s "Receuil Des Principaux Plans

"Festuca Bromoides"

Turner and engraver James Tibbits Willmore

He specialized in the study of birds

"Kungsporten"

was a prominent British newspaper and publishing magnate born on July 15

"Coupe et Profil de la Salle de Bal"

"Stellaria Graminea"