Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims. Etched

by Lewis Schiavonetti and finished by James Heath.. by Thomas Stothard

$2,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: 1809-1817 . 925 x 300 mm., with large margins. Recently cleaned, in fine condition. § Much has been written concerning Thomas Stothard’s Pilgrimage to Canterbury and the later, remarkably similar, composition by his one-time engraver, William Blake. This large engraving and the painting upon which it was based were the cause of a permanent rift between William Blake and two of this most important employers, the publisher R.H. Cromek and the artist

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