James Sowerby
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James Sowerby was an English naturalist, illustrator and mineralogist. Contributions to published works, such as A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland or English Botany, include his detailed and app
James Sowerby painted by Thomas Heaphy (1816)
Original hand colored pattern plate for James Sowerby's "Mineral Conchology of Great Britain."
Hand-coloured print from an engraving of Banksia spinulosa from A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland by Sowerby
Cassiterite from Cornwall, from British Mineralogy, 1803
James De Carle Sowerby
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James De Carle Sowerby was a British mineralogist, botanist, and illustrator. He received an education in chemistry.
James Sowerby
…Royal Academy and took an apprenticeship with Richard Wright. He married Anne Brettingham De Carle and they were to have four daughters and 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…
James De Carle Sowerby
Terrapene clausa from Monograph of the Testudinata (lithograph by Edward Lear)