Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims / William Blake

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Accession Number: 1899.1
Title: Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims
Artist: William Blake
Artist Nationality: British
Artist Life Dates: 1757-1827
Medium and Support: line engraving on paper
Object Creation Date: 1809-1812
Object Creation Place: Europe (continent); United Kingdom (nation)
Creation Place 1: Europe (continent)
Creation Place 2: United Kingdom (nation)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Abby Hitchcock Bartlett
Inscription: Inscribed l.r.: "Ye gon to Canterbury God unto gon spede." (Has been drawn over in ink and differs from wording in 4th-5th state.)
Dimensions: 34.93 cm x 95.89 cm (13 3/4 in. x 37 3/4 in.)
Century: 19th century
Primary Object Classification: Print
Primary Keywords: canterbury; city; groups; hills
Secondary Keywords: castles; cityscapes; england; europe; figures; geography; locality; people and occupations; united kingdom
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In public portfolios: Art of the Enlightenment era (157); Chetwynd visit, su 16 - Enlightenment Literary Interiority (156); ECSG Eighteenth-Century Studies Group (114)

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Full citation: "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims; William Blake." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1899.1/1899.1.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.