The Procession, 1879

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volume Title

Compositions in Outline from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter

Medium

heliotype in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 29.21 × 41.91 cm (11 1/2 × 16 1/2 in.)

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

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2015.143.1530.10

Artists / Makers

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

Heliotype Printing Co. (printer)

Houghton, Osgood & Company (publisher)

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Inscription

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

text on plate:
The Procession. / PL. 10. / "Fie, woman, fie!" cried the old lady - shaking her finger at Hester. / "Dost thou think I have been to the forest, so many times, / and have yet no skill to judge who else has been there?"

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Bibliography

1879: Darley, Felix Octavius Carr. Compositions in Outline from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. Boston, MA: Houghton, Osgood & Company; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1879, pl. 10.