Othello: Tommaso Salvini (1829-1916) as Othello.

“The first thing that strikes one in Salvini’s Othello is the profound and philosophical conception of the character: the second, the truly artistic spirit of the execution. All the features in Shakespeare’s picture are brought out in the presentation. A Saracenic languor alternating with a Saracenic energy – the manners of the ‘Grand Seigneur’ of one who never forgets that ‘he fetches his life from men of royal liege’ – the love of action, the soldierlike bluntness and frankness . . . and with all this - the reserve and military rigour of the general wielding a high command – the absolute and entire love with which, though declined into the vale of years, he loves Desdemona, and the consciousness that his ceasing to love her will be the return of a moral chaos.” Morning Post (London) May 19, 1858, “from our Florence [Italy] Correspondent, May 11.” Photomechanical Print: Photogravure, Color, Furness Image Collection.