Charlotte Caroline Sowerby
British scientific illustrator (1820–1865) and a member of the extensive Sowerby family of naturalist-illustrators
About Charlotte Caroline Sowerby
Lived 1820 – 1865 (aged 44–45). Charlotte Caroline Sowerby was a botanical illustrator and scientific illustrator.
Charlotte Caroline Sowerby (1820–1865) (sometimes C.C. Sowerby) was a 19th-century British scientific illustrator and a member of the extensive Sowerby family of naturalist-illustrators.
Bouquet of 5 calceolarias by Charlotte Caroline Sowerby, printed as hand-colored zincograph in The Illustrated Bouquet (1857–64). Pictured are the varieties General Outram, Lord Raglan, Lord Havelock, Queen of Oude, and Lady Palmerston. Mixed bouquet of flowers by Charlotte Caroline Sowerby, published as hand-colored zincograph in The Illustrated Bouquet (1857–64). Pictured are varieties of petunia and Achimenes.
Biography
Charlotte Caroline Sowerby was the oldest daughter of conchologist and illustrator George Brettingham Sowerby I and granddaughter of the naturalist and illustrator James Sowerby.
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Who was Charlotte Caroline Sowerby?
British scientific illustrator (1820–1865) and a member of the extensive Sowerby family of naturalist-illustrators
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Charlotte Caroline Sowerby was born in 1820.
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Charlotte Caroline Sowerby died in 1865.
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Charlotte Caroline Sowerby was a botanical illustrator and scientific illustrator.
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