Sowerby, James

James Sowerby was born in the London Lambeth district on March 21, 1757 in the family of John Sowerby and Arabella Goodrid. Sowerby decided to become an artist, in 1777 he entered the Royal Academy of Arts . Then he began to teach painting and paint portraits. Soon, James became interested in botanical illustration and began to study botany. He was noticed by some famous botanists, in 1786-1787 he created illustrations for the book of the French botanist Lerieux de Brutel . In 1787, Sowerby met William Curtis and began to illustrate articles in his Botanical Magazine . In 1788, James published a short guide to creating botanical drawings. The artist also met with J.E. Smith , D. Turner and W. Withering . Together with Smith, he was the author of the 36-volume book English Botany , the first volume of which was published in 1790. In 1793, Sowerby became a full member of the Linnaeus Society of London . In 1797, a series of illustrations of mushrooms with descriptions of colored figures of British fungi began to be published. In addition to botany, Sowerby was interested in conchology and mineralogy . In 1807, he was elected a member of the Geological Society. ^[one]

James Sowerby was married to Ann Brettingham de Carl, they had 9 children. Their two sons, George Brettingham and James de Carl , also became botanical and zoological artists. In 1815, Ann Brettingham died, five years later, James married Mary Catherine Reynolds. James died on October 25, 1822 in Lambeth. ^[one]

Herbarium specimens and unpublished manuscripts and illustrations by Sowerby are kept at the London Museum of Natural History (BM), Edinburgh Botanical Garden (E), the Linnaeus Society of London (LINN), and the Liverpool Museum (Liv). ^[2]

• Sowerby, J. (1788). A botanical drawing-book . 12 p., 6 pl.
• Sowerby, J. (1789-1791). Flora luxurians . 16 p., 18 pl.
• Sowerby, J. (1795-1815). Colored figures of British fungi . 3 fasc., 400 pl.

Illustrations

• Lightfoot, J. (1777). Flora scotica .
• Curtis, W. (1777). Linnaeus's System of Botany . 3 pl.
• Curtis, W. (1775-1798). Flora Londinensis . 51 pl.
• L'Héritier de Brutelle, CL (1785-1791). Stirpes novae . 1 pl.
• Withering, W. (1785). An account of the foxglove .
• Relhan, R. (1785). Flora cantabrigensis . 7 pl.
• Dickson, J. (1785-1801). Fasciculi plantarum cryptogamicarum brittaniae .
• L'Héritier de Brutelle, CL (1787-1792). Geraniologia . 6 pl.
• Driver, A .; Driver, W. (1788). The pomona britanica . 8 pl.
• L'Héritier de Brutelle, CL (1789-1791). Sertum anglicum . 10 pl.
• Aiton, W. (1789). Hortus kewensis . 3 pl.
• Smith, JE (1790-1791). Plantarum icones hactenus ineditae . 2 pl.
• Smith, JE (1790-1792). Icones pictae plantarum rariorum descriptionibus et observationibus illustratae . 18 pl.
• Woodville, W. (1790-1793). Medical botany . 274 pl.
• Smith, JE; Sowerby, J. English botany .
• Salisbury, RA (1791). Icones stirpium rariorum . 20 pl.
• Smith, JE (1792). Spicilegium botanicum . 24 pl.
• Smith, JE (1793-1795). A specimen of the botany of New Holland . 16 pl.
• Fraser, J. Thalia dealbata . 1 pl.
• Thornton, RJ (1799). New illustration of the sexual system of C. von Linnaeus . 1 pl.
• Lambert, AB (1803-1825). Description of the Genus Pinus . 10 pl.
• Smith, JE; Sowerby, J. (1804-1808). Exotic Botany . 120 pl.
• Sibthorp, J .; Smith, JE Flora graeca .
• Smith, JE (1807). An introduction to physiological and systematical botany . 15 pl.
• Keith, P. (1816). A system of physiological botany . 9 pl.
• Graves, G. (1822-1833). A monograph of the British grasses . 48 pl.

• Sowerbaea Sm. , 1798
• Sowerbyella Nannf. , 1938

• Woodward, BB Sowerby, James (1757-1822) // Dictionary of National Biography . - 1885-1900. - Vol. 53. - P. 305-307.
• Stafleu FA , Cowan RS Taxonomic Literature : [ eng. ] . - Ed. 2. - Utrecht, Antwerpen, The Hague, Boston, 1985. - Vol. V: Sal — Ste. - P. 759-762. - 1066 p. - ISBN 90-313-0631-2 . - DOI : 10.5962 / bhl.title.48631 .
• Conklin, LH (1995). " James Sowerby, his publications and works ." Mineralogical Record , 26 .