Antique Print - Sowerby - Lichen Limbatus - Mealy-bordered Leafy Lichen - F1

Antique Print - Sowerby - Lichen Limbatus - Mealy-bordered Leafy Lichen - F1"Lichen Limbatus" 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

"Grasshopper Warbler"

Nouvelle-Hollande or Tropic

) Aschers”

First state of 5 (I/V)

Tofieldia Palustris Huds”

Lutetiana"

Smasnäppa

Aethusa Cynapium”

«Phoenicophorium Sechellarum

Technique: Screenprint in colors

There is a handwritten signature on the back of the book

The cartographer used different colors to distinguish key features such as water bodies