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Purple gentian, Gentiana purpurea, from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and...

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Purple gentian, Gentiana purpurea, from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany" 1832 (handcoloured copperplate engraving)
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Sowerby, James (1757-1822) (after) / English
Location
British Library, London, UK
Medium
handcoloured copperplate engraving
Date
1832 AD (C19th AD)
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Purple gentian, Gentiana purpurea. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany" 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew over 2,500 plants for Smith's mammoth "English Botany" (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for "Coloured Figures of English Fungi " (1797) among many other works.

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From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
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