The Girlhood of Mary VirginDante Gabriel Rossetti1The Girlhood of Mary VirginDGR1848Tate, 1923 (no. 316)Stone GalleryW. Holman Hunt; sold at the November 6, 1963 Sotheby's sale (no. 24) for £10; Sedgemanblack chalkirregular size, maximum 12 x 6 1/2 in.Inscribed by William Holman Hunt along the foot of the paper: “Done in my studio Cleveland Street. 1848.”“Old Williams”Surtees describes the model as “Old Williams,” a man employed by the Rossetti family
who sat for St. Joachim (A Catalogue Raisonné,
vol. 1, 10).
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Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 11 (no. 40b).