Away!, plate seven from Othello
Medium
Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on off-white China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.6 × 31.1 cm (9 5/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Chine: 34.3 × 32.6 cm (13 9/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Plate: 26.1 × 36.5 cm (10 5/16 × 14 3/8 in.); Sheet: 34 × 49 cm (13 7/16 × 19 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
40782
About the Artist
Théodore Chassériau · 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...