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The Girlhood of Mary Virgin

The Girlhood of Mary Virgin is an 1849 oil on canvas painting by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, measuring 83.2 by 65.4 cm and now in the collection of Tate Britain, to which it was bequeathed in 1937 by Agnes Jekyll.[1] It was his first completed oil painting and is signed "Dante Gabriele Rossetti P.R.B. 1849".[2] He first exhibited it at the 'Free Exhibition' at the Hyde Park Corner Gallery.[3]

The Girlhood of Mary Virgin

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1849

oil on canvas

83.2 cm × 65.4 cm (32.8 in × 25.7 in)

Tate Britain, London

Tate Britain - catalogue entry

List of paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Prettejohn, Elizabeth, The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites, 2007, Tate Publishing, Millbank, London.  9781854377265 ISBN 978-1854377265

ISBN

Donnelly, Brian, Sonnet-Image-Intertext: Reading Rossetti's the Girlhood of Mary Virgin and Found, article in Victorian Poetry, Vol. 48, No. 4