The music lesson or the governess: a sketch

Dadd, Richard (1817-1886)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1855

Height:

25.7 cm  (10 1/8 in.)

Width:

17.8 cm  (7 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor and black ink with gouache on moderately thick, rough, blue wove paper

Description

A young lady plays a Broadwood piano while her teacher (or governess) stands at her right and reaches to turn the page of the music score in front of them.

Iconclass

49B24
teacher and pupil
48C7211
musician training pupils, music-lesson
48C73331
grand piano
46A11
division into classes ( ~ society)
41D
fashion, clothing

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Grand pianoforte [2284]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Barringer, Timothy J. Art & music in Britain: Four encounters, 1730-1900 (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2006) 16, 20.

Notes

Inscribed in gray ink, upper right: "The Music Lesson of the Governess."; within image, on piano: "BROADWOOD & CO." Signed and dated in gray ink, upper right: "A Sketch by | Richard Dadd. 1855."

RIdIM record id

6356