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Sowerby, James, 1757-1822

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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Chrysoplenium alternifolium, 1790

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/242
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Chrysoplenium alternifolium. Coloured line engraving. 1790. Sowerby, James, 1757-1822, Artist.

Published in: Sir Edward Smith and James Sowerby, English Botany. 2nd ed., vol. 3 (1836).

Note: Plate 593. Published as plate 54 'Chrysoplenium alternifolium / Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage' in Sowerby's first edition (1790). Pencil annotation: 'Chrysoplenium oppositifolium [sic, a different plant] grows abundantly opposite', ie St Bernard's Well Coll-10/1/241.

Dates: 1790
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

[Echium vulgare], June 1794

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/14
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[Echium vulgare]. Coloured line engraving. June 1794. Sowerby, James, 1757-1822, Artist.

Published in: Sir Edward Smith and James Sowerby, English Botany, vol. 3 (1794).

Note: Plate 181 'Echium vulgare / Common Viper's Bugloss' ; pencil annotation: 'Echium vulgare, grows abundantly on opposite gr.' [ie images of Holyrood Park Coll-10/2/15(i), Coll-10/2/15(ii)].

Dates: June 1794
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

[Lichen parietinus], 1 August 1794

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/86(ii)
Scope and Contents

[Lichen parietinus]. Coloured line engraving. 1 August 1794. Sowerby, James, 1757-1822, Artist.

Published in: Sir Edward Smith and James Sowerby, English Botany, vol. 3 (1794).

Note: Plate 194 'Lichen parietinus / Yellow Wall Lichen': pencil annotation: 'A Lichen common on Pentlands'.

Dates: 1 August 1794
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

[Lichen rangiferinus], 1 April 1794

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/86(i)
Scope and Contents

[Lichen rangiferinus]. Coloured line engraving. 1 April 1794. Sowerby, James, 1757-1822, Artist.

Published in: Sir Edward Smith and James Sowerby, English Botany, vol. 3 (1794).

Note: Plate 173 'Lichen rangiferinus / Rein-deer Lichen': pencil annotation: 'Reindeer Moss, common on Pentlands'.

Dates: 1 April 1794
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

[Statice armeria], 1 January 1795

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/30(i)
Scope and Contents

[Statice armeria]. Coloured line engraving. 1 January 1795. Sowerby, James, 1757-1822, Artist.

Published in: Sir Edward Smith and James Sowerby, English Botany, vol. 4 (1803).

Note: Plate 226 'Statice armeria / Thrift'; pencil inscription: 'Armeria maritima'.

Dates: 1 January 1795
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian