Study for La Ghirlandata Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ©Robin Alston Study for La Ghirlandata DGR 1873 unknown <artist/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>This image is a study for the oil painting <xref doc="a.s232.rap">La Ghirlandata</xref> (<xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="130" to="131" workcode="s231">Surtees</xref> 130-131). It is among Robin Alston's collection of contact transparencies that he made for the materials ultimately published in <bibl> <author>Fredeman</author>,<xref doc="a.nc257.r622.a4.rad" link="dead"> <hi rend="i"> <title level="wrk">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.

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