XJF466239 Tess harassed by Alec D\'Urberville, plate 21 from the monthly serialisation of \'Tess of the D\'Urbervilles\' by Thomas Hardy, printed in \'The Graphic\', 1891 (litho) by Herkomer, Hubert von (1849-1914) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: image accompanied by the quote, \'On going up to the fire to throw a pitch of dead weeds upon it, she found that he did the same on the other side. The fire flamed up, and she beheld the face of D\'Urberville. The unexpectedness of his presence, the grotesqueness of his appearance in a gathered smock frock, such as was now worn only by the most old-fashioned of the labourers, had a ghastly comicality that chilled her as to its bearing. D\'Urberville emitted a low, long laugh\';); English, out of copyright.