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- Title
Reader's Reply.
- Authors
Bowden, Betsy
- Abstract
In context of a larger study of eighteenth-century visual Chauceriana, the author has begun reconstructing a situation wherein editor Thomas Tyrwhitt was collaborating with the Royal Academy toward a deluxe folio edition that would differ from the previous one published in 1721 by having a reliable text and by showing scenes from the tales rather than equestrian portraits of the tellers. John H. Mortimer completed nine scenes before dying in 1779, aged thirty-eight. Engravings of Mortimer's contributions were published separately in 1787. In 1785-8, a half dozen paintings based on other Canterbury tales were exhibited at the Royal Academy; very unlike dramatist William Shakespeare, poet Geoffrey Chaucer inspired no other exhibitors.
- Subjects
CHAUCER, Geoffrey, d. 1400; POETS; EXHIBITIONS; CANTERBURY Tales
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2003, Vol 50, Issue 1, p76
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/500076