# "Ha! I Like Not That"

- By: John Rogers (born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904)
- Date: patented 1882
- Medium: painted plaster
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: 22 x 20 3/4 x 14 3/8 in. (55.8 x 52.6 x 36.5 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Rogers and Son
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=21148)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/efa0aaa583500450c795cf2d92bea236.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

For this statuette illustrating a scene from Shakespeare's Othello, John Rogers conveys the play's setting--Renaissance Venice--through swords, ceramics, feathers, brocades, leather, and lace. These bring to life a pivotal scene in which the vile Iago, on the far left, plants the seeds of murderous jealousy in Othello, whose wife, Desdemona, appears to receive inappropriate attentions from a rival. A luxurious collar accentuates Desdemona's beauty, while a dagger hints at Iago's treachery. Through such historical detail, this parlor statue fueled Americans' popular conception of Venice as a place of adventure, romance, and above all, sensual excess.