
Naturalist and illustrator
G. B. Sowerby II
The shell artist of a whole family of natural history painters.
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The life
1812–1884Born London, England
George Brettingham Sowerby II came from a family of natural history artists. With his father he published the Thesaurus Conchyliorum, a long series of books on shells, drawing the plates himself. Our cone shell cards come from it.




