James Sowerby

James Sowerby (1757–1822)
	Alternative names	Sowerby
	Description	illustrator, naturalist and publisher father of James de Carle Sowerby, father of George Brettingham Sowerby I
	Date of birth/death	21 March 1757	25 October 1822
	Location of birth/death	Lambeth, London, England	Lambeth, London, England
	Work location	London, England
	Authority file	: Q1235813 VIAF: 61879779 ISNI: 0000000081415785 ULAN: 500005666 LCCN: n86854905 NLA: 36199719 Botanist: Sowerby Open Library: OL165582A Oxford Dict.: 26073 GND: 124329810 SELIBR: 283724 SUDOC: 073946915 BNF: 157280906 SBN: MODV111206 BNE: XX5114881 RKD: 74061 J9U: 987007334617905171 Koninklijke: 070147507 WorldCat

creator QS:P170,Q1235813

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  Mr. James Sowerby, illustrator and biologist, is depicted by Mr. Heaphy, artist, as seated with his documents, apparatus and a famous specimen known as the Yorkshire meteorite.

Works

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  Banksia spinulosa from James Edward Smith's A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland.
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  Embothrium speciosissimum (now Telopea speciosissima)
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  Hand coloured engraving by James Sowerby (1757-1822). It describes a snake of Australia, Pseudechis porphyriacus, given in the title as “Coluber Porphyriacus”, and appearing in Zoology and botany of New Holland and the isles adjacent
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  Sea bind weed
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  Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms (published 1797 - 1809)