Article ID: CBB597124833

‘Pruning a genius’: marginalia by Richard Dadd (2021)

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After falling into mental illness as a young man, the British artist Richard Dadd (1817–86) spent some 20 years as a patient at Bethlem Hospital in London. A rare example of his writings from these years survives in the form of marginalia in a copy of Lectures on Painting and Design by Benjamin Robert Haydon, held in the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. This article presents a transcription of the notes, along with an introduction setting them in the contexts of Dadd’s career and his relationship with the senior staff at Bethlem.

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Authors & Contributors
Betta, Emmanuel
Michele Riva
Micucci, Federica E.
Lara Pauline Karpenko
Erik Sganzerla
Scrimgeour, David
Concepts
Patients
Doctor-patient relationships
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatric hospitals
Medicine and society
Medicine
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
England
Italy
Great Britain
United Kingdom
London (England)
Scotland
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