"Owake! what ho! Brabantio! thieves! thieves!": plate 1 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 1), Théodore Chassériau, 1844

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Owake! what ho! Brabantio! thieves! thieves!': plate 1 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 1), 1844, Etching, engraving, and roulette on chine collé, plate: 14 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. ( x 27 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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