Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋🅰️ 📖 🖋️ **The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter”**
“This image responds to chapter 2, where Hester leaves prison to endure public humiliation on the town scaffold. The text describes women resentful of Hester's beauty, who find her punishment too lenient–figures shown here below the steps.”
Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter' | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1879). https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/406020.
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
<strong>Signature:</strong> Lower left, in pen and ink: "F.O.C. Darley fecit"<br/><br/><strong>Inscription:</strong> Upper center, in graphite: "The Market Place."<br/>Upper right in ink: "1."<br/>Lower center, in graphite: "She took the baby on her arm, and, with a burning / blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that / would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbors