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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2024.
Othello (Portrait of Ira Aldridge)
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2024.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2024.

Othello (Portrait of Ira Aldridge)

Artist Pietro Calvi (Italian, 1833 - 1884)
CultureItalian
Dateca. 1870
MediumWhite marble and bronze with dark brown patina
Dimensions38 × 22 1/2 × 20 in. (96.5 × 57.2 × 50.8 cm)
SignedSigned on verso internal base: Calvi, Milano
Credit LineMasterpiece Society Purchase Fund
Object number2023.37
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 216
DescriptionPortrait bust of actor Ira Aldridge as the character of Othello, his hand upright holding a hankerchief.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Janet De Coux
1942
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2023.
Pietro della Vecchia
1649
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Sigmund Abeles
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
19th century
Photograph by Shannon Ruff, Canon EOS Mark II D digital slr-2008.
Pietro Tenerani
ca. 1816-1819
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Kom peoples, Cameroon grassfields
Early- to mid-20th century
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2022.
Richard Meitner
2000
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
William Ordway Partridge
1901
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2024.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
ca. 1679