'O my fair warrior!': plate 5 from Othello (Act 2, Scene 1), etched 1844, reprinted 1900, Etching, engraving, roulette, and drypoint on chine collé; second edition (Gazette des Beaux-Arts), plate: 12 5/16 x 15 15/16 in. (31.3 x 40.5 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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O my fair warrior!, plate 5, Othello, Act 2, Scene 1, etched 1844, reprinted 1900, Etching, engraving, roulette, drypoint, chine collé, second edition, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, plate, 12 5/16 x 15 15/16, 31.3 40.5 cm, Prints, Théodore Chassériau, French, Le Limon, Saint-Domingue, West Indies, 1819–1856, Paris, 1844, Eugène, Piot, commissioned, young, prepare fifteen, illustrations, Shakespeare, Inspired, series, ground-breaking Hamlet, lithographs, Delacroix, created, year earlier, younger artist, opted, linear technique, etching
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