The Sleeper Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1846-1847 (circa)
<artist/> <location/> <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>The drawing is one of the series that DGR made in 1846-1847 to illustrate Poe's verse. The drawing style is an effort to imitate the technique of fifteenth-century German engraving work. (For further commentary see the discussion of <xref doc="a.s19.raw"> <title level="pic"> <hi rend="i">The Raven. Angel Footfalls</hi> ).

Textual History: Composition

Textual History: Revision

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Reception

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The drawing illustrates Poe's poem of the same name (see in particular lines 41-43).

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Cummings and Staley, <hi rend="i">Romantic Art in Britain</hi> , 310-311. Gere, <hi rend="i">Pre-Raphaelite Drawings</hi> , 20-21. Treuherz, Prettejohn, and Becker, <hi rend="i">DGR</hi> , 143 (no. 5). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 6 (no. 29).

British Museum drawing (1846-7) The Sleeper DGR 1846-47 (circa) pen and Indian ink 1