The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice Dante drawing an angel Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ©Courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice Dante drawing an angel DGR 1853 Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition, 4 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, 1857 (no.55); R.A., 1883 (no.362); R.A., British Art, 1934 (no.843); Arts Council 1953 (no.43); Tate 1984 (no.197) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford bequest Francis MacCracken; Christie's sale March 31, 1855 (lot 84), £52. 10s.; Thomas Combe watercolour 16 1/2 x 24 in. monogram 1853 The monogram and date are inscribed at lower right. Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 17. Stephens, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 34a. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 36. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> vol. 2, plate 51. Phythian, <hi rend="i">Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood</hi> , 26. Radford, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 3. Delaware Art Museum Mansell print. Delaware Art Museum print. Elizabeth Siddal Siddal sat for the head of the young woman. Williams Williams sat for the elderly gentleman. WMR WMR may have sat for the head of Dante. <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 costume of religious figure on the left was designed after Paul Mercuri's illustration of a fifteenth-century Podestat .

Historical

Literary

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Angeli, DGR con 107 illustrazioni , 17. Benedetti, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 178. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 36. Phythian, <hi rend="i">Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood</hi> , 26. Radford, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 3. Stephens, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 34a. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 22 (no. 58). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 51. Yamaguchi, “Rossetti's Use of Bonnard's Costumes Historiques,” 5-36.