The Illustrated Eighteenth-Century Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Miskimin, Alice (S.)
The Illustrated Eighteenth-Century Chaucer
- Published
- Modern Philology 77 (1979): 26-55.
- Description
- Two sets of Chaucer illustrations altered the late eighteenth-century and early Romantic readers' perception of Chaucer: George Vertue's for Urry's edition (1721), and Thomas Stothard's for Bell (1782-83). Stothard's illustrations were later developed into his large "cabinet picture," "The Procession of Chaucer's Pilgrims," engravings of which had wide sale and popularity far greater than William Blake's Chaucer work. Blake rejected the Roman-type editions of Tyrwhitt and Urry and returned to the black-letter of Speght (1687) for quotations in his "Advertisement" for Chaucer engravings (1809-12).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.