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Richard Dadd
1817-1886
Robin Goodfellow
ca. 1861
10 7/8 x15 1/2 inches (277 x 394 mm)
Pen and brown ink over black chalk.
2025.7
Gift of Martha J. Fleischman in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
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The English Victorian painter Richard Dadd is best known for his depictions of fairies and supernatural scenes, such as this image of the mischievous sprite Robin Goodfellow. Dadd designed a similar vignette as an illustration to the 1842 Book of British Ballads, though this example, on paper from 1861, is one of his many later reprisals of earlier subjects, created while he was a patient in the Bethlem (Bedlam) psychiatric hospital.
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Watermark: WHATMAN/1861
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