Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina
Sketch to illustrate the Passions: Avarice
- Pen and ink and watercolour
- 14 ¼ × 10 inches · 362 × 254 mm
- Signed, inscribed and dated: 'Sketch to illustrate the Passions – Avarice. by Richard Dadd Bethlehem Hospital London’ May 12th 1854’
Collections
- H. C. Green, Cranley Lodge, Guildford;
- H. C. Green sale, Sotheby’s, London, October 18, 1961, lot 33;
- K.J. Hewett (1919-1994);
- Christopher Lennox-Boyd (1941-2012);
- Christie’s, London, March 19, 1985, lot 70;
- Christie’s, London, 14 July 1992, lot 154;
- Jacqueline Fowler, acquired in 1992, to 2018
Exhibitions
- London, Walker’s Galleries, 1946, no. 17;
- London, Tate Gallery, The Late Richard Dadd, 1817-1886, 1974, no. 126 (repr.).
Literature
- David Greysmith, Richard Dadd: The Rock and Castle of Seclusion, New York, 1973, pp. 83, 176, repr.;
- Patricia Allderidge, The Late Richard Dadd, 1817-1886, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, London, 1974, p. 96-7, no. 129, repr. p. 96;
- Louise Lippincott, "Murder and the Fine Arts; or, a Reassessment of Richard Dadd," The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Malibu, 1988, vol. 16, p. 83.
