The Child at the Brookside
1879
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Artwork overview
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Medium
heliotype in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
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.) -
Accession
2015.143.1530.9
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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. 9.
Inscriptions
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.
Wikidata ID
Q77260920