"O Spartan dog": plate 15 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2), Théodore Chassériau, 1844

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O Spartan dog': plate 15 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2), 1844, Etching, engraving, roulette, drypoint, aquatint or sulphur tint on chine collé, sheet: 25 x 19 1/4 in. ( x cm), Prints, Théodore Chassériau (French, Le Limon, Saint-Domingue, West Indies 1819–1856 Paris), In 1844 Eugène Piot commissioned the young Chassériau to prepare fifteen illustrations to Shakespeare's Othello. Inspired by a series of ground-breaking Hamlet lithographs that Delacroix had created one year earlier, the younger artist opted for the more linear technique of etching

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