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| Keywords: Blake-Cant-pilgrims-detail-a.jpg en Blake-Cant-pilgrims-detail-a Coloured engraving 2nd state 1810 Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims Copper engraving with additions in watercolor by the artist Signature and imprint Painted in Fresco by William Blake by him Engraved Published October 8 1810 at No 28 Corner of Broad Street Golden Square; inscribed below Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims and with the names of the pilgrims 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 Squire The engraving is known in five states Blake's use of line engraving emulating the styles of early printmakers Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden evokes the character of Chaucer's poetry Blake painted the pilgrims after a quarrel with R H Cromek and Thomas Stothard regarding whether the commission had originally been Blake's The painting was exhibited at his brother's Soho shop in 1809 and this engraving was created from it 2013-05-17 19 03 20 scanned from a book Creator William Blake PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard William Blake's Chaucer | ||||
