Antique Print - Sowerby - Polycarpon Tetraphyllum - Four-leaved Polycarpon - F1 "Vik Castle"

"Vik Castle"

"Wurttemberg and Bavaria"

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and gained recognition for his work during a trip to Brazil as part of an Austrian expedition in 1817

"Silene Nutans"

"Melampyrum Arvense"

Antique Print - Sowerby - Polycarpon Tetraphyllum - Four-leaved Polycarpon - F1 "Vik Castle""Polycarpon Tetraphyllum" 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