Copper plate for Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims

Artist: William Blake (British, 1757–1827)

1810

Prints and Drawings

Not on view
Medium

Copper plate

Dimensions

14 × 38 1/8 in. (35.6 × 96.8 cm)

Credit Line

Bequest of Charles J. Rosenbloom, B.A. 1920

Accession Number

1973.140.3

Geography

Made in United Kingdom

Culture

British

Period

18th century

Classification

Print Matrices

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Provenance
Charles J. Rosenblum (1898—1973), Pittsburgh; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1973
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

engraved in reverse below: list of characters/Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims/ Painted in fresco by William Blake & by him Engraved & Published October 8, 1810. Ye Yon to Canterbury God Mote Yon spede.

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