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- Title:
- Sketch for the Passions: Jealousy
- Additional Title(s):
- The Garden of the Castle: 'Othello', Act III, Scene III
- Part Of:
Collective Title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
- Date:
- 1853
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, light blue wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 x 10 1/8 inches (35.5 x 25.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in purple ink, upper left: "by Richard Dadd. Bethlem Hospital. London. 1853"; in purple ink, upper left: "Sketch to illustrate Jealousy. | Othello. Shakespeare's Play, __ | Iago, Sweet Desdemona Oh! cruel | Fate that gave thee to the Moor__"
Signed and dated in purple ink, upper left: "by Richard Dadd. Bethlem Hospital. London. 1853"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.1.38
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- armed forces | cane | capes | castle | discussion (meeting) | feathers | general | gesture | hat | hilts | husband | illustration | island | jealousy | literary theme | men | ocean | plays by William Shakespeare | port | racial | sails | seamen | ships | soldiers | study (visual work) | swords | The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, play by William Shakespeare | tights
- Associated Places:
- Asia | Cyprus
- Associated People:
- Iago (character in Othello, the Moor of Venice)
Othello (character in Othello, the Moor of Venice) - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8810
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 16, 123, no. 43, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Nicholas Tromans, Richard Dadd, the artist and the asylum , Tate Publishing, London, 2011, pp. 114, 136, NJ18 D121 T76 + (YCBA) [YCBA]