2-913-643 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"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.