- Title:
- The Music Lesson or the Governess: a Sketch
- Date:
- 1855
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor and black ink with gouache on moderately thick, rough, blue wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/8 × 7 inches (25.7 × 17.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray ink, upper right: "The Music Lesson of the Governess."; within image, on piano: "BROADWOOD & CO."
Signed and dated in gray ink, upper right: "A Sketch by | Richard Dadd. 1855."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.2575
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- braids | genre subject | gowns | music | piano | sheet music | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8820
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Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Richard Dadd Exhibition (Davis & Langdale Co., Inc., 1994-05-03 - 1994-06-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 16,20, V 1699 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text) , New Haven, 2006, [p. 50], V 1699:1 (YCBA) [YCBA]