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- Title:
Sketch for the Passions: Love
- Additional Title(s):
Sketch to Illustrate the Passions: Love
The Balcony Scene
Capulet's Orchard: 'Romeo and Juliet', Act III, Scene V
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1853
- Medium:
- Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, light blue wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (35.9 x 25.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in blue ink, upper right: "Sketch for the Passions | LOVE - Romeo & Juliet | Romeo - My life, my love, | my soul adieu. Vide | Shakespeare's. Play-"; in blue ink, upper right: "Richard Dadd | Bethlem Hospital 1853."
Signed and dated in blue ink, upper right: "Richard Dadd. | Bethlem Hospital 1853."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.1.39
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- balcony | embracing | feather | garden | girl | hills | husband | illustration | kissing | landscape | leaves | literary theme | love | lovers | man | manor | marriage | passion | plays by William Shakespeare | robes | Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene V | ropes | sculptures | secrecy | servant | sunrise | sword | trees | watching | wife
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
The Nurse (character in Romeo and Juliet)
Romeo (character in Romeo and Juliet)
Juliet (character in Romeo and Juliet) - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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