# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-sowerby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:29:38.841Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-sowerby"
name: "James Sowerby"
slug: "james-sowerby"
description: "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 was intended to reach a widening audience in works of natural history. The standard author abbreviation Sowerby is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name."
tagline: "British botanical illustrator and mineralogist (1757-1822)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1757-03-21"
deathDate: "1822-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.613104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump