The Raven: Angel Footfalls Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 The Raven: Angel Footfalls DGR 1846 June Tate 1923 (no.260); Birmingham 1947 (no.193), dated incorrectly; Tate, The Romantic Movement, 1959 (no.829) Mrs. J.A.R. Munro Alexander Munro; by descent to his daughter-in-law Mrs. J.A.R. Munro Pen and brown ink on paper with rounded corners 13 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. G.C.D.R. June/46 The monogram and date are inscribed at lower right. Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné , vol. 2, plate 5. “A man reading by candle light leaps up from his chair at the sight of a troop of fairy figures as they enter from the left foreground and cross to the right. Behind him stands a large female figure with a skeleton on either side; in the background a bookcase is surmounted by busts of Shakespeare, Byron, and a third, unidentifiable. On the extreme left a raven is perched on a helmeted bust placed on the mantlepiece” (Surtees 4). <artist/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>Commentary is not yet available for this image.</p> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconograpic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Marillier</author>, <xref doc="a.nd497.r8.m33.rad" workcode="s19" from="234"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 234. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 4 (no. 19). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 5. Treuherz et al., <hi rend="i">DGR</hi> , 142 (no. 2).