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Description: This attractive original botanical print originates from: 'English Botany or coloured figures of British plants with their essential characters, synonyms and places of growth', by James Edward Smith, president of the Linnaean Society, published in London, 1802. All figures are by James Sowerby.
Artists and Engravers: James Sowerby was born in Lambeth, London. Having decided to become a painter of flowers his first venture was with William Curtis, whose Flora Londinensis he illustrated. Sowerby studied art at the Royal Academy and took an apprenticeship with Richard Wright. He married Anne Brettingham De Carle and they were to have three sons: James De Carle Sowerby (1787�1871), George Brettingham Sowerby I (1788�1854) and Charles Edward Sowerby (1795�1842), the Sowerby family of naturalists. His sons and theirs were to contribute and continue the enormous volumes he was to begin and the Sowerby name was to remain associated with illustration of natural history.
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Subject: Plate 983: Lichen affinis. (Thinner Spongy Lichen). A lichen is a stable symbiotic association between a fungus and algae.
Condition: Excellent. General age related toning. Please study scan carefully.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 15 x 24.5 cm. The image size is ca. 9.5 x 17 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 5.9 x 9.6 inch. The image size is ca. 3.7 x 6.7 inch.
Medium: Etching/engraving, original hand colouring, on a verge type paper.
Location: C31-05
SKU: TPC 28824.1
Section: SOWERBY-1868
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