Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ŠTate, London 2002 Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice DGR 1856 4 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition, 1857 (no.54); Liverpool Academy 1858; B.F.A.C., 1883 (no.32); New Gallery 1897 (no.41); Tate 1923 (no.20); Paris 1938 (no.109); Paris 1972 (no.234); Newcastle 1971 (no.24); R.A., 1973 (no.101); Monacco 1979-80 (no.328); Tate 1984 (no.218) Ellen Heaton Tate Gallery 5229 Ellen Heaton; Winnington School in 1864; Beresford Rimington Heaton; Tate Gallery 1940 watercolour 18 1/2 x 25 3/4 in. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 95. Angeli, <hi rend="i">DGR con 107 illustrazioni</hi> , 77. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated memorial</hi> , 72c verso. Mrs. James Hannay Mrs. Hannay sat for the figure of Beatrice. Annie Miller WMR asserts that Annie Miller sat for one of the attendants. <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>This painting illustrates an episode from Dante's <xref doc="a.dante005.rad" link="dead"> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Vita Nuova</hi> in which the poet dreams that he is led by Love to the body of Beatrice on her funeral bier.

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Angeli, <hi rend="i">DGR con 107 illustrazioni</hi> , 77. Grieve, “Furniture in Rossetti's Art,” 9-28. Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated memorial</hi> , viii, 50, 72-73, 83, 110, 127-29, 161, 168. Powell, “Object, Symbol, and Metaphor,” 16-29. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 42-43 (no. 81). Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 2, plate 95.