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…