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Watercolor sketch of tense children in a fenced yard, one climbing a post, with a toy horse and village houses behind.

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Sketch to Illustrate the Passions: Suspense or Expectation, Richard Dadd (1855), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A watercolor sketch shows a group of children in a yard enclosed by wooden fences, with one boy climbing a post and others gathered tensely near a barrel and a gate. A small girl holding a whip watches beside a toy horse on wheels, while a village of brick houses sits on a hillside behind them. The work is titled Sketch to Illustrate the Passions: Suspense or Expectation, by Richard Dadd, dated 1855.

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