"Therefore, be merry Cassio": plate 6 from Othello (Act 3, Scene 3)
Medium
Etching, engraving, roulette, drypoint on chine collé; first edition of 1844
Dimensions
plate: 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. (31.8 x 24.5 cm) image: 10 9/16 x 8 7/16 in. (26.8 x 21.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection. The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
64.599.1
Tags
About the Artist
Théodore Chassériau|William Shakespeare · 1819–1856
Théodore Chassériau was born on September 20, 1819, in El Limón, Samaná, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo — present-day Dominican Republic — to a French father and a Creole mother. The family relocated to Paris in 1820, and the young Chassériau's exceptional talent was evident almost immediately. At just eleven years old, in 1830, he was accepted into the prestigious studio of Jean-Auguste-D...