Hester and Pearl

1879

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    heliotype in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 28.42 × 37.94 cm (11 3/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 42.07 × 54.61 cm (16 9/16 × 21 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.143.1530.7

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Associated Artworks

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The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

Heliotype Printing Co., Houghton, Osgood & Company

1879

Pearl

Heliotype Printing Co., Houghton, Osgood & Company

1879

The Pastor and His Parishioner

Heliotype Printing Co., Houghton, Osgood & Company

1879

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1879

  • Darley, Felix Octavius Carr. Compositions in Outline from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. Boston, MA: Houghton, Osgood & Company; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1879, pl. 7.

Inscriptions

lower left on plate: F.O.C. Darley fecit.
text on plate:
Hester and Pearl. / PL. 7. / "But in good earnest now, Mother dear, / What does this scarlet letter mean?"

Wikidata ID

Q77260917

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