"Honest Iago, my Desdemona must I leave to thee": plate 4 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 3), Théodore Chassériau, etched 1844

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Honest Iago, my Desdemona must I leave to thee': plate 4 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 3), etched 1844, reprinted 1900, Etching, engraving, roulette, and drypoint on chine collé; second edition (Gazette des Beaux-Arts), plate: 14 3/8 x 10 1/2 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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