1845
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
View of the Island of Rhodes is a 1845 watercolor by Richard Dadd, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour shows a landscape from Rhodes. Richard Dadd painted it around 1845. The artist sketched this scene during a trip with his patron. Soon after, Dadd became ill in Egypt. This led to years in an asylum, where he refined his tiny, precise brushwork. His method here turns light and color into a shimmering haze. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting depicts a view of the island of Rhodes, executed with meticulous stippling and hatching techniques that render the scene through heightened perception. The work is inscribed with its title on the reverse in the artist’s hand. Previously dated to Dadd’s travels between 1842 and 1843, it has since been reassigned to 1845 by scholar Nick Tromans, aligning it with the artist’s early period at Bethlem.
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Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail.
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