'Have you pray'd tonight, Dedesmona?': plate 12 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2), etched 1844, reprinted 1900, Etching, engraving, and roulette on chine collé; second edition (Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1900), plate: 12 5/8 x 9 11/16 in. (32 x 24.6 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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you pray'd tonight, Dedesmona?, plate 12, Othello, Act 5, Scene 2, etched 1844, reprinted 1900, Etching, engraving, roulette, chine collé, second edition, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1900, plate, 12 5/8 x 9 11/16, 32 24.6 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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