Taurello's First Sight of Fortune Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ŠTate, London 2004 Taurello's First Sight of Fortune DGR 1849 B.F.A.C., 1883 (no. 21); New Gallery, 1897 (no. 34); Pre-Raphaelite Art, State Galleries of Australia, 1962 (no. 64) Tate Gallery 4627 bequest Frederic G. Stephens; by descent to Lt.-Colonel H.S. Stephens pen and brown ink 10 x 10 1/4 in. At the lower left is a note in DGR's hand: “Frederic G. Stephens—from his P.R. Brother Dante G. Rossetti.” Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 24. <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/> </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>Eriko Yamaguchi has identified a pictorial source for this work in Camille Bonnard's <xref doc="a."> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Costumes Historiques</hi> (1829). The man on the right, especially his necklace, recalls a plate representing a fifteenth-century Podestat .

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Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 34, 234. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 9 (no. 39). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 24. Yamaguchi, “Rossetti's Use of Bonnard's Costumes Historiques,” 5-36.