Sujet

Othello - painted by H.C. Selous - from the Exhibition of the British Institution, 1854. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Othello - painted by H.C. Selous - from the Exhibition of the British Institution, 1854. 'In this little picture...Mr. Selous treats with considerable vigour and pictorial effect the last tragic scene in "Othello". The jealous Moor has just drawn aside the curtain of the bed, and contemplates the calm features of the sleeping Desdemona; his hand still resting on the dagger by his side, but as if on the point of removing it, as he exclaims: "Yet I'll not shed her blood; nor scar that whiter skin of her than snow, and smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die". The colouring is very rich in tone and detail of ornamentation in various parts introduced with considerable judgement and taste'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22B07_290

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

23,5Mo (2,7Mo) / 21,4cm x 27,5cm / 2531 x 3250 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Africa female Caucasian women woman people black male man men arts painting marriage play law white guy crime sleep sleeping continent British weapon weapons bed room KILLER African dramatic vulnerable drama war curtain location century Britain asleep criminal newspapers press blade literature moor concept exhibition TRAGEDY wives wife husband B&W dagger murderer warfare tragic 19th century black & white black and white B W weaponry nineteenth century Othello The Print Collector bedchamber Illustrated London News Moor of Venice Shakespearean Shakespearian ILN Henry Courtney Selous bedroom newspaper engraving Unknown William Shakespeare Shakespeare William The Moor of Venice bed chamber soft furnishing Shakspeare Selous Henry Courtney 19th-century