Marigolds Bower Maiden Fleurs de Marie Gardener's Daughter Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ©Nottingham City Museums & Galleries; Castle Museum & Art Gallery Marigolds Bower Maiden Fleurs de Marie Gardener's Daughter DGR 1873 B.F.A.C., 1883 (no.79) 650 guineas Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery 1956-90 William Graham; Graham sale at Christie's 1886, (lot 114); Lord Davey; Christie's 1936, (lot 52); Miss Martin; Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery oil 45 x 29 in. monogram 1874 Monogram and date are in the lower right corner. Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 335. In a letter to Frederick Leyland (January 31, 1874), DGR described the picture thus: “I shall call the picture either Spring Marybuds or <hi rend="i">The Bower Maiden</hi>. It represents a young girl (fair) in a tapestried chamber, with a jar containing marybuds (or marsh marigolds, the earliest spring flowers here), which she is arranging on a shelf. Near her is a cat playing with a ball of worsted. The picture abounds in realistic materials & is much like the <xref doc="a.s228.rap"> <title level="pic"> <hi rend="i">Veronica</hi> in execution & not inferior to that picture in colour.” (Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 74.21) ? In a letter to his mother (February 23, 1874) DGR identified the model as “Little Annie”, a young lady later described by Theodore Watts-Dunton as a house assistant at Kelmscott (Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 74.36). <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>Commentary is not yet available for this image.</p> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconograpic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Fredeman</author>, <xref doc="a."> <title> <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 74.21, 74.24, 74.35, 74.36, 74.45. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 178. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, no. 235. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, (plate 335). Watts-Dunton, <hi rend="i">Old Familiar Faces</hi> , 86.