Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Chara Hispida - Hispid Chara - F1 "Lycopodium Selaginoides"

"Lycopodium Selaginoides"

He was born into a family with a distinguished cartographic tradition

Bowdler Sharpe is also known as the author of numerous scientific papers

"Lichen Schraderi"

Russel was an artist and engraver active in the mid-19th century

Antique Botanical Print - James Sowerby - Chara Hispida - Hispid Chara - F1 "Lycopodium Selaginoides""Chara Hispida" 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. The reverse side of this engraving is blank. The text page on the third picture, below, is an original page from this work with original description