Description: In a letter to Frederick Leyland (January 31, 1874), DGR described the picture thus:
“I shall call the picture either
Spring Marybuds or
The Bower Maiden. It represents a young girl (fair) in a tapestried chamber, with
a jar containing marybuds (or marsh marigolds, the earliest spring flowers here), which she is
arranging on a shelf. Near her is a cat playing with a ball of worsted. The picture abounds in
realistic materials & is much like the
Veronica
in execution & not inferior to that picture in colour.” (Fredeman,
Correspondence, 74.21)
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