The Leech and His Patient, Illustration for The Scarlet Letter Felix Octavius Carr Darley (American, 1822-1888). The Leech and His Patient, Illustration for The Scarlet Letter, ca. 1878. Brown-black ink with graphite underdrawing on cream, thick, very smooth, highly calendered wove paper., Image: 12 x 16 5/16 in. ( x cm). Executed in the spare linear style that characterizes the work of F. O. C. Darley, this ink drawing portrays a scene from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter (originally published in 1850), in which Roger Chillingworth, a physician and Hester Prynne’s long-lost hus
The Leech and His Patient, Illustration for The Scarlet Letter Felix Octavius Carr Darley (American, 1822-1888). The Leech and His Patient, Illustration for The Scarlet Letter, ca. 1878. Brown-black ink with graphite underdrawing on cream, thick, very smooth, highly calendered wove paper., Image: 12 x 16 5/16 in. ( x cm). Executed in the spare linear style that characterizes the work of F. O. C. Darley, this ink drawing portrays a scene from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter (originally published in 1850), in which Roger Chillingworth, a physician and Hester Prynne’s long-lost husband, tries to convince the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, her lover, to confess the secret affair. Notwithstanding the economy of his line, Darley used body language and richly detailed period costume and setting to dramatize the story. For example, Chillingworth’s crooked pose reflects his bent for revenge, and Dimmesdale’s gesture of clutching his heart alludes to the scarlet A (for “adulteress”) that Hester wears on her chest. American Art ca. 1878
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