"Therefore, be merry Cassio": plate 6 from Othello (Act 3, Scene 3), Théodore Chassériau, 1844

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Therefore, be merry Cassio': plate 6 from Othello (Act 3, Scene 3), 1844, Etching, engraving, roulette, drypoint on chine collé; first edition of 1844, plate: 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 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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