"O my fair warrior!": plate 5 from Othello (Act 2, Scene 1), Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

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O my fair warrior!': plate 5 from Othello (Act 2, Scene 1), etched 1844, reprinted 1900, Etching, engraving, roulette, and drypoint on chine collé; second edition (Gazette des Beaux-Arts), plate: 12 5/16 x 15 15/16 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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