Double Sonnet to the Painter D. G. Rossetti,
Suggested by his Picture “The
Girlhood of Mary Virgin”
John Orchard
Production Description
Document Title: S[onnet] to the Painter [xxxx] G. Rossetti; suggested
by his Picture ‘The Girlhood of Mary Virgin’ exhibited in the Hyde Park Gallery
this year 1849
Author: John Orchard
Date of composition: 1849 August
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Collation: 2 pages
Scribe: John Orchard
Provenance
Current Location: The library of the South African National Gallery
Physical Description
Paper: pale blue unlined
Dimensions of Document: 7 x 4 1/2 in
Other Physical Features: The paper is mutilated at the top so that part of the title
on the recto of the manuscript is absent.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This Orchard holograph is one of two manuscripts of the sonnet that survive. The other is a copy by WMR preserved in the Angeli Papers at the University of British Columbia and was published in Fredeman, Journal of the P. R. B., 200.
Textual History: Composition
Written around 19 August 1849, as WMR notes in his PRB Journal for 20 August (see Fredeman, Journal of the P. R. B., 12).