James Sowerby
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British botanical illustrator and mineralogist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Sowerby was an English naturalist, illustrator and mineralogist. Contributions to published works, such as A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland or English Botany, include his detailed and appealing plates. The use of vivid colour and accessible texts were intended to reach a widening audience in works of natural history.