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Title: Othello, the Moor of Venice

Alternative Titles:

A Moor
A moor

Object Name: painting

Artist/Maker: Northcote, James RA
Role in production: Artist
Place of Creation: Europe, United Kingdom, England
Date: 1826

Accession Number: 1882.2
Image Copyright: © Manchester City Galleries
Credit: Transferred from the Royal Manchester Institution.

Physical Description

Medium / Material

Oil/

Support

Canvas

Technique

Description

Half length frontal portrait of Ira Aldridge, celebrated nineteenth century black actor, in the role of Othello. He is dressed in a white shirt, with a white lace necker-chief, he looks nervously to the left. Plain background.

Dimensions

Type: Canvas
Height: 76.2 cm
Width: 63.5 cm
Depth:

Type: frame
Height: 89.4
Width: 76.5
Depth: 11.1