From a Photograph supplied by the Illustrated Press Association, Washington. Large, finely-worked water-colour en grisaille on light board, c. 11" x 15", partial picture caption tipped onto the lower edge. Very good. Date stamp of "5 Oct. 91 [but 1901] verso. [Produced for the Graphic,], 1901.
From the remaining portion of the picture caption, "As the National Guard of the District of Columbia, which brought up the rear of the first section of the parade moved up to the waiting hearse and wheeled slowly into line, guards of honour from the Army and Navy took up their positions on either side. The coffin lay in a plain black hearse drawn by six sable horses in draperies of black net with trailing tassels, a stalwart groom walking at the head of each. General Brooke led the procession."
Dadd was trained at South Kensington and the RA Schools before starting work as an illustrator in around 1872. He worked extensively for illustrated magazines such as the Graphic, whose staff he joined in 1884. "His style is very photographic with heavy application of body colour and clever uses of grey wash, but it is technically excellent and very accurate in detail... Dadd's pictures and drawings are models of Edwardian eloquence, if not high art." [Houfe The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists. p.110]
