Helen Adelaide Wood

[2] The collection of her artwork in the Natural History Museum of Jamaica has been inscribed on the UNESCO Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Memory of the World Register.

Based on her date of death and the release of pieces of her work, such as in The Cactaceae, it can be estimated that she was active for the late 1800s and very early 1900s.

Even well regarded artists, such as Augusta Innes Withers,[11] had to have the support of a male counterpart in order to display her work and receive recognition.

[12][13] Some of her earliest recorded works from 1904 are seen in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series: Botany such as her illustration of Orchidaceae.

Other locations of her work include the Natural History Museum in London and the Smithsonian Institution which contain pieces from both Flora of Jamaica and The Cactaceae.

In comparison to the other botanical illustrators of the time, Wood had very accurate and straightforward depictions while also making sure to capture the beauty of her subject.

In thinking about her more focused and centered depictions of plants, one can draw connections with Georg Dionysius Ehret, a botanist and botanical illustrator from the 1700s.

[14] She may have drawn inspiration from his later works which were centered around one form but tended to have much more detailed illustrations of small pieces of the plant beside the overall drawing.

This short textual identification is often combined with numerical labels so that the flow of the drawing is not interrupted by sections of descriptions.