
Hester and the Physician, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (d. 1888)
ca. 1879 · Pen and black ink with graphite and pale blue wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Hester and the Physician, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (d. 1888)
ca. 1879 · Pen and black ink with graphite and pale blue wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Pearl, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (d. 1888)
ca. 1879 · Pen and black ink with graphite and pale blue wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (d. 1888)
ca. 1879 · Pen and black ink with graphite and pale blue wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Procession, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (d. 1888)
ca. 1879 · Pen and black ink with graphite and pale blue wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes
W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)
1888 · Commercial color lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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Revelation of the Scarlet Letter, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (d. 1888)
ca. 1879 · Pen and black ink over graphite
Cleared · Public Domain
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James Russell Lowell
Charles Calverley (d. 1914)
1895, cast 1896 · Bronze
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo open reproduction
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Van Amburgh & Co.'s Triumphal Car Passing the Astor House, April 20th, 1846
Nathaniel Currier (d. 1888)
1846 · Hand colored lithograph
In copyright
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Van Amburgh and Co.'s Triumphal Car, Passing the Astor House, April 20th 1846
Nathaniel Currier (d. 1888)
1846 · Hand-colored lithograph
In copyright
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The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, J. Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, from the Great Americans series (N112) to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco manufactured by W. Duke Sons & Co.
W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)
1888 · Commercial color lithograph
In copyright
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The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
Nathaniel Hawthorne (d. 1864)
1892 · Illustrations: color lithograph
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
A children's book: 'El mal de ojo (la cabeza de la Gorgona)', from the series "Biblioteca de 'Chapulin'"
Nathaniel Hawthorne (d. 1864)
1943
In copyright
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