View asset onlyCommon tormentil, Potentilla erecta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker’s ‘Medical Botany,' John Bohn, London, 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.IdentifierAKG2001787SourceFlorilegiusCredit lineakg-images / FlorilegiusTopicBOTANYFLORILEGIUSILLUSTRATIONMEDICINEPersonJAMESTechniqueENGRAVING (TECHNIQUE)Size3749px × 4961px (53 MB) 31.7 cm × 42.0 cm @ 300 dpiSpecial Formats3763px × 4980px (54 MB) JPEG31.9 cm × 42.2 cm @ 300 dpiAdd to lightbox: 'My First Lightbox'Add to cartDownload
