print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1865,0520.841
- Title
- Object: Three Gamblers and Time
- Description
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Illustration to Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' (Pardoner's Tale); three men standing in a wood, listening to an old man at left, one of the men panicking and waving his arms; frame surrounding. 1787
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1787
- Dimensions
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Height: 244 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 184 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a series of nine illustrations for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales designed by Mortimer, probably for an edition which was abandoned before publication. The page numbers on the illustrations do not correspond to any know editions. The British Library carries a copy of Thomas Tyrwhitt's edition of the Tales published in 1798 into which impressions of the Mortimer plates appear to have been added after publication (they are not included in other copies of the same edition). See Sunderland, No. 164, page 199.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Canterbury Tales (Pardoner's Tale)
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,0520.841
