The Child at the Brookside, 1879

Not on View

Compositions in Outline from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter

heliotype in black on wove paper

image: 30.32 × 40.48 cm (11 15/16 × 15 15/16 in.)

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

2015.143.1530.9

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

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

text on plate:
The Child at the Brookside. / PL. 9. / "Thou strange child, why dost thou not come to me?" exclaimed Hester.

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. 9.