Studies of Flowers from Nature

Studies of Flowers from Nature is a 19th-century botanical copybook notable for the high quality of its illustrations by an artist known only as "Miss Smith.

Such copybooks were popular in the early 19th century, but few have survived; it is thought that owners tended to discard them after completing their painted pages.

[1][4] The book was published by Ackermann of London by subscription, a common practice at the time, and sold for 5 guineas as single volume; it was also obtainable in 10 monthly parts issued between 1818 and 1820.

It is possible that she may be the same person as another little-known botanical artist, Miss J. Smith, whose work appeared in William Sole's Menthae Britannicae, although that was published some twenty years earlier.

[1] There was a women's boarding school at Adwick Hall in the early 19th century, and Miss Smith may have been an instructor there.