'O Spartan dog': plate 15 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2), 1844, Etching, engraving, roulette, drypoint, aquatint or sulphur tint on chine collé, sheet: 25 x 19 1/4 in. (63.5 x 48.9 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 Spartan dog, plate 15, Othello, Act 5, Scene 2, 1844, Etching, engraving, roulette, drypoint, aquatint, sulphur tint, chine collé, sheet, 25 x 19 1/4, 63.5 48.9 cm, Prints, Théodore Chassériau, French, Le Limon, Saint-Domingue, West Indies, 1819–1856, Paris, 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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