"Oh! Oh! Oh!": plate 14 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2), Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844, reprinted 1900


Oh! Oh! Oh!': plate 14 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2), etched 1844, reprinted 1900, Etching, engraving, and roulette on chine collé; second edition (Gazette des Beaux-Arts), Image: 12 3/8 x 9 3/4 in. ( x cm), Prints, Théodore Chassériau (French, Le Limon, Saint-Domingue, West Indies 1819–1856 Paris), After Delacroix’s successful Hamlet lithographs appeared in 1843, Chassériau responded with a series of etchings devoted to Shakespeare’s Othello. This example encapsulates the play’s climax in act 5, in which the title character is undone by his tragic error concerning his wife, Desdemona


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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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