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Sketch to Illustrate the Passions. Agony - Raving Madness

RICHARD DADD (1817-1886) Biography

Sketch to Illustrate the Passions. Agony - Raving Madness (England, 1854)

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Watercolour on brown paper

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35.20cm high
25.00cm wide
(9.84 inches wide)
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Dadd continued to paint scenes of everyday life while he was in Bethlem and Broadmoor, but it was the everyday life that he had left behind. When it came to depicting madness, he chose the standard stereotype of a chained lunatic lying on straw, a scene which certainly could not have been found at Bethlem during his own time there, nor for some decades previously.