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English: 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.
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William Blake  (1757–1827)  wikidata:Q41513 s:en:Author:William Blake q:en:William Blake
 
William Blake
Alternative names
W. Blake; Uil'iam Bleik; Blake
Description English-British painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker and illustrator
Date of birth/death 28 November 1757 Edit this at Wikidata 12 August 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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London; Felpham Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q41513

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