- Title:
Sketch to Illustrate the Passions: Suspense or Expectation
- Additional Title(s):
Sketch for the Passions: Suspense or Expectation
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1855
- Medium:
- Watercolor, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches (35.9 x 26 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black ink, lower left: "by. Richard Dadd. Bethlehem Hospital London _ June 2nd 1855. __ ."
Inscribed in black ink, lower left: "-Sketch to illustrate the Passions. Suspense. or Expectation."; in black ink, lower left: "by. Richard Dadd. Bethlehem Hospital London _ June 2nd 1855. __ ."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.2006
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- barrel | boys | buildings | cannon (artillery) | children | climbing | cloth doll | genre subject | girls | houses | illustration | leisure | mischief | rocking horse | self-portrait | study (visual work) | toys
- Associated People:
- Dadd, Richard (1817–1886), painter
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8822
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Richard Dadd Exhibition (Davis & Langdale Co., Inc., 1994-05-03 - 1994-06-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Elisabeth Fairman, Pleasures and pastimes, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 32, no. 241, DA485 F25 1990 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Richard Dadd : a loan exhibition, Davis & Langdale Co., Inc., New York, 1994, p. 11, no. 16, Vertical File V0271 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 194-96, no. 86, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]