The Leech and His Patient

1879

Heliotype Printing Co.

Printer

Houghton, Osgood & Company

Publisher

Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Artist After, American, 1822 - 1888

after Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Attributed to

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    heliotype in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.94 × 38.1 cm (11 × 15 in.)
    sheet: 42.07 × 54.61 cm (16 9/16 × 21 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.143.1530.5

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Associated Artworks

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The Market Place

Heliotype Printing Co., Houghton, Osgood & Company

1879

Compositions in Outline from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Heliotype Printing Co., Houghton, Osgood & Company

1879

The Interview

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. 5.

Inscriptions

lower left on plate: F.O.C. Darley
text on plate:
The Leech and His Patient. / PL. 5. / "Why should not the guilty ones sooner avail / themselves of this unutterable solace?"

Wikidata ID

Q77260913

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