Thomas Stothard's 'The Pilgrimage to Canterbury' (1806): A Study in Promotion and Popular Taste
- Author / Editor
- Read, Dennis M.
Thomas Stothard's 'The Pilgrimage to Canterbury' (1806): A Study in Promotion and Popular Taste
- 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. 211-31.
- Description
- Read discusses the conditions of production and marketing of Stothard's Pilgrimage to Canterbury, arguing that the success of the painting and its engravings was due in good part to promotion by Robert Hartley Cromek, an antagonist of William Blake.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.