Behold James Sowerby’s Strikingly Illustrated New Elucidation of Colors (1809)
James Sowerby was an artist dedicated to the natural world. It thus comes as no surprise that he was additionally enormously interested in color, especially given the period wherein he lived. Born in 1757, he made his professionalfessional begin as a painter of moveers: a viable profession path in these days, at the very least…