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."
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:
embracing | watching | literary theme | sunrise | leaves | kissing | manor | trees | hills | feather | passion | balcony | husband | wife | girl | lovers | secrecy | love | marriage | servant | man | illustration | ropes | sculptures | sword | robes | garden | landscape | plays by William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene V
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08)Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
Publications:
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 17, 123, no. 44, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, British watercolors : drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries from the Yale Center for British Art, , Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1985, no. 66, pl. 66, ND1928 W533 1985 (YCBA)