The Girlhood of Mary Virgin | |
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Artist | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Year | 1849 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 83.2 cm × 65.4 cm (32.8 in × 25.7 in) |
Location | Tate Britain, London |
Website | Tate Britain - catalogue entry |
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]