- The title of this work refers to a position on the chess board which was considered simple enough to have been set by a child.
- Portrait of a Young Man by Richard Dadd.
- Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes...
- The Child's Problem 1857 by Richard Dadd 1817-1886.
- Eduardo Sadier described Dadd’s story to me, involving as it did patricide at the behest of an ancient Egyptian God of the Underworld, as “wonderful and terrible”.
- 1857 Watercolour by the parricide Richard Dadd, who killed his father in 1843 thinking that he was the devil.
- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dadd-the-childs-problem-n06251.
- Most disturbing of all Dadd’s many disturbing pictures is the watercolor The Child’s Problem.
- The problem at the heart is the position on its chess board, considered by chess players to be simple enough as to have been set by a child.
