Robert Browning Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ©Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Robert Browning DGR 1855 October Rossetti Gallery (no.12) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 681 Hung over mantle at DGR's House at Chatham Place; given by DGR to Fanny Cornforth; purchased from her by Fairfax Murray through Gooden and Fox of Pall Mall; presented in July 1909 to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge watercolour 4 3/4 x 4 1/8 in. October 1855 “October” written in the upper left corner. “1855” written in the upper right corner. Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial Delaware Art Museum print Delaware Art Museum print Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 398. Robert Browning <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>“Rossetti had first met the poet in London in the summer of 1851. . . . In the autumn of 1855 during their stay in London, Rossetti had hoped to paint the portraits of Browning and his wife, but this did not prove practicable, and the present water-colour drawing, begun in London and finished a few weeks later in Paris, was all that materialized” (Surtees, <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i"> <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" workcode="s20" from="5">A Catalogue Raisonné</xref> </hi> , vol. 1, 159 (no. 275)).

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Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 159 (no. 275). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 398. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 35, [52arecto], 70.