Reverend Dimmesdale's vigil on the scaffold, from Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Hand-colored woodcut

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Hand-colored woodcut 1874

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Size: 3508px × 5308px
Photo credit: © North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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