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 | lovers | sunrise | literary theme | sculptures | ropes | watching | love | leaves | secrecy | girl | kissing | feather | manor | man | illustration | hills | balcony | husband | passion | robes | trees | wife | servant | landscape | marriage | garden | sword | 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)