print
- Museum number
- Dd,6.52
- Title
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Object: Othello, Act V, Scene II
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Series: Shakespeare Gallery
- Description
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Othello overcome with grief, one hand over his eyes, the other grasping a sheathed sword, bending down to left, preparing to kill Desdemona, who sleeps in a canopied bed behind to left; after Josiah Boydell. 1803
Stipple and etching
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 663 millimetres
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Width: 480 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Othello (V.ii)
- Acquisition date
- 1804
- Acquisition notes
- Dd,6 was a complete copy of the Boydell Shakespeare series, which was subsequently broken up. The 'Book of Donations 1756-1823' records on the 8 December 1804 the gift of a 'set of proof impressions of the large prints belonging to Messrs Boydell's edition of Shakespeare' from Mr Charles Dilly and Mr Alderman Boydell. This must be the volume Dd,6.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Dd,6.52