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attributed to Richard Cosway, 1742–1821, British, Othello and Desdemona, 'Othello', Act V, Scene II, ca. 1805
- Title:
Othello and Desdemona, 'Othello', Act V, Scene II
- Part Of:
- Date:
- ca. 1805
- Medium:
- Graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 3/4 inches (24.4 × 19.7 cm), Image: 8 7/8 × 7 inches (22.5 × 17.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "Iago"; lower right: "Othello"
Signed in brown ink, lower right: "Cosway"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.1.31
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bed (furniture) | bedroom | blankets | Cymbeline, Act II, Scene II | drapery | feathers | gesture | hat | interior | literary theme | men | murder | oval | plays by William Shakespeare | sleeping | table | The Tragedy of Othello, Act V, Scene II | women
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Iachimo
Imogen (character in Cymbeline)
Othello (character in Othello, the Moor of Venice)
Desdemona (character in Othello) - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8274
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 12-13, 105, no. 34, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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