"He smothers her": plate 13 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2), Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900

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He smothers her': plate 13 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2), etched 1844, reprinted 1900, Etching and engraving on chine collé; second edition (Gazette des Beaux-Arts), plate: 13 11/16 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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