Tales Told and Tellers of Tales: Illustrations of the Canterbury Tales in the Course of the Eighteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Bowden, Betsy.
Tales Told and Tellers of Tales: Illustrations of the Canterbury Tales in the Course of the Eighteenth Century
- Published
- William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003), pp. 121-90.
- Description
- Reproduces and assesses various eighteenth-century depictions of CT or the Canterbury pilgrims, including Thomas Stothard's illustrations for Bell's British Poets (1782-83), the set of pilgrim portraits (here associated with John Vanderbank) in John Urry's 1721 edition, and works drawn or executed by John H. Mortimer, James Jeffreys, Edward Francesco Burney, George Vertue, Lady Diana Beauclerk, Angelica Kauffman, John Francis Rigaud, Richard Westfall, and Henry Fuseli.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures .
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.