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Episode #430

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#430 Here’s Your Reward
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Victorian era artist Richard Dadd

Episode sources:

  1. “Richard Dadd: Masterpieces of the asylum” by Arifa Akbar (Independent) 2011

  2. “Symbolism of Richard Dadd” by Peter Ogwen Jones

  3. “The Late Richard Dadd, 1817-1886” by Patricia Allderidge

  4. “Victorian Egyptomania: Why Was England So Obsessed With Egypt?” by Michael Gouck. (The Collector) 2022

  5. “Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum” by Mark Stevens

  6. “Locked up in Bedlam, artist Richard Dadd was set free by fairies” by Jonathan Jones (The Guardian) 2015

  7. “The Cobham Park Murder” (The Observer) 1843

  8. “Richard Dadd: the fairy king” by AS Byatt (The Guardian) 2011

  9. “Exhibition leads to a re-union” (Evening Post) 1975

  10. “Gallery Features Art of Madman” by Gregory Jensen (UPI) 1974

  11. “Richard Dadd” (Wikipedia)

  12. “The Halt in the Desert” (The British Museum) 

  13. “Richard Dadd: The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke” (Tate)

  14. “Both vast and microscopic” by Nicholas Tromans (The Daily Telegraph) 2011

  15. “Sketch to Illustrate the Passions—Senility or Peevishness” (The Met)

  16. “Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art” by Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo (2009)

  17. “How Bedlam became London's most iconic symbol” by Amanda Ruggeri (BBC) 2016

  18. “Top 10 Incredible Finds on Antiques Roadshow” (Antiques Roadshow via WatchMojoUK)

  19. “Richard Dadd and the Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke” by Jonathan Davidson (The American Journal of Psychiatry) 2015

  20. “Treasured memories” (Mirror UK) 2012

  21. “A Victorian Mental Asylum” (Science Museum) 2018

  22. “Osiris” Britannica

 

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