Study for La Ghirlandata

This image is a study for the oil painting La Ghirlandata ( Surtees 130-131). It is among Robin Alston's collection of contact transparencies that he made for the materials ultimately published in Fredeman, A Rossetti Cabinet. This particular image did not appear in Fredeman's book, however, and the source of Alston's reproduction in unknown, as is its present location. It is possible that this drawing is the one identified by Surtees as no. 232B, owned in 1969 by Lord Sherfield.