Geoffrey Chaucer [graphic]

Description

Title: Geoffrey Chaucer [graphic]
Creator: Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker
Contributor: John and Paul Knapton (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: 1742.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini
Abstract: "Portrait of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, half-length directed to right, wearing a capuchon and a pen case hanging from a ribbon around his neck; in ornamental oval frame on a bracket; a lyre and scrolls below; before publisher's address"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text in image.
Text below image: "In the collection of Sir Hans Sloane Bart."
Printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 37.7 x 24 cm, on sheet 38.4 x 27 cm
Language: English

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