"Owake! what ho! Brabantio! thieves! thieves!": plate 1 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 1) 1844 Théodore Chassériau French 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. His expressive conception of form had been learned in Ingres's studio then developed under Delacroix. In the series, key exchanges offer a compressed summary of much of the play, with a final cluste
"Owake! what ho! Brabantio! thieves! thieves!": plate 1 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 1) 1844 Théodore Chassériau French 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. His expressive conception of form had been learned in Ingres's studio then developed under Delacroix. In the series, key exchanges offer a compressed summary of much of the play, with a final cluster devoted to the tragic conclusion. Here, in the opening scene, Iago and Roderigo simulate a robbery in order to wake Senator Brabantio and inform him that his daughter Desdemona has eloped with "Owake! what ho! Brabantio! thieves! thieves!": plate 1 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 1). Suite of fifteen prints: Shakespeare's Othello / Quinze Esquisses à l'eau forte dessinées et gravées par Théodore Chasseriau. Théodore Chassériau (French, Le Limon, Saint-Domingue, West Indies 1819–1856 Paris). 1844. Etching, engraving, and roulette on chine collé. Prints
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