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__"
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:
hat | tights | discussion (meeting) | capes | racial | soldiers | seamen | castle | feathers | swords | husband | sails | ocean | study (visual work) | gesture | armed forces | men | island | cane | ships | jealousy | general | illustration | hilts | port | literary theme | The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, play by William Shakespeare | plays by William Shakespeare
Associated Places:
Asia | Cyprus
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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. 16, 123, no. 43, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)Nicholas Tromans, Richard Dadd, the artist and the asylum , Tate Publishing, London, 2011, pp. 114, 136, NJ18 D121 T76 + (YCBA)