Antique Print - James Sowerby - Polypodium Calcareum - Limestone Polypody - F1 "Fucus Rubens"

"Fucus Rubens"

leaving a significant impact on 19th-century German graphic art history

emphasizing the natural beauty and tranquility of the landscape

born around 1835 in Uppland

"Vicia Lathyroides"

Antique Print - James Sowerby - Polypodium Calcareum - Limestone Polypody - F1 "Fucus Rubens""Polypodium Calcareum" 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