The very name of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood proclaimed to their original audiences the centrality of the artists' dependence on then-unorthodox sources: early Italian and, it must be noted, early Flemish paintings. The most obvious method would have been to encounter the paintings on their own turf, but opportunities for the Pre-Raphaelites to travel abroad, especially during the formative years of the Brotherhood, were limited. Most notoriously, Dante Gabriel Rossetti never visited Italy, his ancestral as well as his spiritual home. The influence of early Italian and early Flemish art permeated the Pre-Raphaelites' work, especially during the active years of the Brotherhood, between 1848 and 1853, but it was often filtered through inadequate and distorting reproductive media. Rossetti's drawing in the Fogg also shows the effect, previously undiscerned, of a reproductive source whose influence has been identified in other drawings by Rossetti, as well as in works by Millais, Burne-Jones and Ford Madox Brown.