Pearl
Medium
Pen and black ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 5/8 x 21 in. (39.7 x 53.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of W. A. White, 1914
Accession Number
14.111.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *Pearl*, a captivating pen and black ink drawing created around 1884 by Felix Octavius Darley in collaboration with Nathaniel Hawthorne. 15⅝ × 21 inches, this work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints evokes a tender scene amid nature, featuring boys, girls, and women by trees. Darley, a pioneering 19th-century American illustrator renowned for his detailed book illustrations, masterfully employed fine pen lines to capture texture, movement, and emotion, a technique that brought literary narratives vividly to life on the page. The artwork's association with Hawthor...