Charlotte Caroline Sowerby

[1][4][5] Most of the plates in the book are by Sowerby, starting with Plate 10,[6] and range from clematis, dianthus, petunia, and calceolaria to the Australian wildflower Sturt's desert pea (Swainsona formosa, formerly Clianthus dampieri).

[1] Although most of Sowerby's known works are botanical illustrations, there is extant an 1854 watercolor by her of a quartz crystal with asbestos inclusions, apparently drawn from a specimen in her family's collection.

[8] There are also three drawings of volcanoes made for George Julius Poulett Scrope.

[8] She is buried in a family grave on the west side of Highgate Cemetery with her father George Brettingham Sowerby I and brother George Brettingham Sowerby II.

In 1997, a detail of Sowerby's watercolor of Guzmania splendens was included in a British stamp issue.

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 .
Grave of Charlotte Sowerby in Highgate Cemetery