Hester and the Physician, 1879

Not on View

Compositions in Outline from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter

heliotype in black on wove paper

image: 26.51 × 37.78 cm (10 7/16 × 14 7/8 in.)

sheet: 42.07 × 54.61 cm (16 9/16 × 21 1/2 in.)

2015.143.1530.6

Felix Octavius Carr Darley (artist after) American, 1822 - 1888

lower left on plate: F.O.C. Darley - fecit

text on plate:
Hester and the Physician. / PL. 6. / "Hast thou not tortured him enough?" said Hester, / "Has he not paid thee all?"

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art

1879: Darley, Felix Octavius Carr. Compositions in Outline from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. Boston, MA: Houghton, Osgood & Company; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1879, pl. 6.