Lot 158: Richard Dadd (1817-1886)

Landscape with cattle and a bridge
signed, inscribed and dated 'Composition: sketch. Rich^d Dadd./Bethlem Hospital. London. Mar 7^th 1857.' (lower left)
watercolour
6 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. (17 x 24.8 cm.)

London, Tate Gallery, The Late Richard Dadd, 19 June-18 August 1974, no. 164, illustrated p. 111.

D. Greysmith, Richard Dadd - The Rock and Castle of Seclusion, London, 1973, p. 178.
P. Allderidge, The Late Richard Dadd, exhibition catalogue, London 1974, p. 110, no. 164, illustrated.
P. Allderidge, Richard Dadd, London, 1974, p. 100, no. 26, illustrated p. 38.

Anonymous sale; Christies, London, 18 January 1972, lot 96.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 November 1977, lot 81.
Mrs Alistair Matthews; Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1985, lot 70.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 November 2000, lot 238.

Sold by order of the Executors of the late Mr. Meyer Pudua

This watercolour may be related to a number of landscape studies which Dadd made in 1857-8. These were worked up from sketchbooks and taken from his imagination. The ruined castle is probably based upon the artist's childhood memories of Rochester Castle.

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