ABSTRACT
Mackintosh sketched flowers froman early age.While staying atWalberswick, Suffolk, in 1914-1915, the period of his best-known and most polished flower studies, he told the daughter of Francis Newbery that he had begun sketching them when he was 18 years old.1 He also remembered that three of his earliest sketchbooks of flower drawings had been lost and it may well be that the sketchbook of botanical drawings, now in the National Library of Ireland, is one of those remembered, and missed, by Mackintosh.This sketchbook contains thirteen delicate and accurate pencil studies of commonly encountered cottage garden and wayside specimens.
