Hester Prynne and her daughter Pearl from Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Hand-colored halftone of an illustration

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Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

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Size: 5376px × 3429px
Photo credit: © North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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