Print shows Geoffrey Chaucer, on the far left, riding a dark horse, and 29 pilgrims departing the Tabard Inn in Southwark for a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The pilgrims are identified, from left to right, as "Reeve, Chaucer, Clerk of Oxenford, Cook, Miller, Wife of Bath, Merchant, Parson, Man of Law, Plowman, Physician, Franklin, 2 Citizens, Shipman, The Host, Sompnour, Manciple, Pardoner, Monk, Friar, a Citizen, Lady Abbess, Nun, 3 Priests, Squires Yeoman, Knight, [and] Squire."
Title
Chaucers Canterbury pilgrims
Published
[London], Published October 8. 1810, at No. 28. Corner of Broad Street Golden Square, [approximately 1810-1820]
Edition
[Third state: approximately 1810-1820].
Full Collection Name
Framed items from the collections of The Bancroft Library
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1977.017--FR
Type
Image
Extent
1 print
Other Physical Details
etching and engraving
Dimensions
visible image 35 x 96.5 cm.
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
State from: Essick, Robert N. The Separate Plates of William Blake. A Catalogue. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983, p. 63.
Provenance
Acquisition Information: Gift of Norman & Charlotte Strauss.
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