A good example of the Italian literary subjects to which the artist was so attached, particularly at this date. At the same New Gallery exhibition she showed a similar incident in the life of Dante, the poet's first sight of Beatrice (no. 316). Two more Dantesque subjects had been exhibited at the New Gallery in 1888, another was to appear in 1891, and in 1889 she showed The Enchanted Garden, an ambitious illustration to the Decameron, which was included in the Last Romantics exhibition at the Barbican in 1989 (no. 30). Her fondness for these themes owed much to her friendship with D.G. Rossetti and much to her residence in Italy. In 1886 she had moved from Florence to Rome when her husband, W.J. Stillman, became the correspondent there for The Times