Antique Print - James Sowerby - Bartramia Crispa - Curled Bartramia - F1 This beautiful antique hand-colored engraving

This beautiful antique hand-colored engraving was created by Karl Reiss

The work was published in France in 1838

"Dicranum Starkii"

"Grimmia Dicksoni"

Many of his plates have been acquired by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk

Antique Print - James Sowerby - Bartramia Crispa - Curled Bartramia - F1 This beautiful antique hand-colored engraving"Bartramia Crispa" 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