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HUGUES MERLE. The Scarlet Letter, 1861. Creator: Hugues Merle.

HUGUES MERLE. The Scarlet Letter, 1861. Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of "The Scarlet Letter" (1850), regarded this painting, which William Walters commissioned from Merle in 1859, as the finest illustration of his novel. Set in Puritan Boston, the novel relates how Hester Prynne was publicly disgraced and condemned to wear a scarlet letter "A" for adultery. Arthur Dimmesdale, the minister who fathered her child, and Roger Chillingworth, Hester's elderly husband, appear in the background.
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The Scarlet Letter, 1861. Creator: Hugues Merle.
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The Scarlet Letter, 1861. Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of "The Scarlet Letter" (1850), regarded this painting, which William Walters commissioned from Merle in 1859, as the finest illustration of his novel. Set in Puritan Boston, the novel relates how Hester Prynne was publicly disgraced and condemned to wear a scarlet letter "A" for adultery. Arthur Dimmesdale, the minister who fathered her child, and Roger Chillingworth, Hester's elderly husband, appear in the background.
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3983 x 4960 px | 56.5 MB
Print size:
33.7 x 42.0 cm | 13.3 x 16.5 in (300 dpi)
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