"If I do die before thee, pr'ythee shroud me in one of those same sheets": plate 8 from Othello (Act 4, Scene 3

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If I do die before thee, pr'ythee shroud me in one of those same sheets': plate 8 from Othello (Act 4, Scene 3), 1844, Etching, engraving, and drypoint on chine collé; first edition of 1844, plate: 13 9/16 x 9 3/4 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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