"The Free Exhibition of Modern Art." The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres 1860 (31 March 1849), 239.

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We must not forget to direct attention to a very uncommon work, in emulation of the old missal style, highly finished, indeed, though in oil; it is stippled all over, and the hairs, every one of them, touched with gilding; it is called the "Girlhood of Mary Virgin," and by G. D. Rossetti.