Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ŠTate Gallery, London 2001 Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah DGR 1855 B.F.A.C. 1883 (no.19); New Gallery 1897 (no.50); Tate 1923 (no.14); Brussels 1929 (no.13a), R.A., 1934 (no.839); Newcastle 1971 (no.23); Paris 1972 (no.229); R.A. 1973 (no.92); Tate 1984 (no.214) John Ruskin 1855 30 guineas Tate Gallery 5228 bequest John Ruskin; Ellen Heaton; Beresford Rimington Heaton (1940); Tate Gallery watercolour 14 x 12 1/2 in. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 82. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 66b recto. Elizabeth Siddal Siddal sat for the figure of Rachel <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> The watercolour illustrates an episode from <bibl> <author>Dante's</author> <xref doc="a.dante002.3.rad" link="dead"> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Purgatorio</hi> , Canto XXVII. This is one of two watercolours dealing with subjects from Dante commissioned by Ruskin in April 1855. The other is <hi rend="i">Dante's Vision of Matilda Gathering Flowers</hi> .

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Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , viii, 66-67. Treuherz, Prettejohn, and Becker, <hi rend="i">DGR</hi> , 159-160 (no. 45). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 35-36 (no. 74). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 82.