Introduction
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.