Transportation to Canterbury : The Rival Envisionings by Stothard and Blake

Author / Editor
Bowden, Betsy.

Title
Transportation to Canterbury : The Rival Envisionings by Stothard and Blake

Published
Studies in Medievalism 11: 73-111, 2001.

Description
The treatment of horses and horsemanship helps to contrast the "secular lightheartedness" of Thomas Stothard's 1809 painting of the Canterbury pilgrims and the "heartfelt religious fervor" William Blake sought to convey in his 1807 engraving.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.