Mariana

DGR made this quick sketch in the manuscript for the “Willowwood” sonnets that he gave as a present to William Stillman. This manuscript, and hence the sketch, probably dates from early 1870, when DGR was seeing a good deal of Stillman (see DGR's letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 22 January 1870 ).

• Fredeman, Correspondence, 70. 8.
• Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 1, 215 (no. 213).