ADVERTISEMENT.
IN the Supplement to my Treatise on Flower Painting, I promised
to give some studies of groups of Flowers in a style of higher
finishing: the following Six Plates are of that description, and
have been drawn with a view to lead the young artist onward in a
progressive line of improvement. I must here observe, that I
purpose continuing, in works similar to the present, a series of
instructions for painting Flowers, Fruit, Birds, and other
interesting subjects ; and as the whole will be taken from Nature,
and executed in an elegant taste, I cannot avoid indulging the
hope, that those who honour my undertaking by using it as their
guide, will acquire a natural, free, and graceful manner of
Drawing.
    I may perhaps be accused of too great a partiality for my
favourite art, but I frequently wish that Drawing were always
made an essential part of education, there being so many
situations in life in which the use of the pencil is not only a
pleasing, but an useful accomplishment. To Ladies, Flower Painting
is peculiarly appropriate :-it is an easy introduction to general
painting, and does not require a previous knowledge of perspective:
-it may be attained without the expense of a Master, a few