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Palamon and Arcita

Print
1787 (published)
Artist/Maker
Chesham, Francis (engraver)
Smith, John Raphael (publisher)
Place of origin
London (published)

Plate depicting Palamon and Arcita.


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitlePalamon and Arcita (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
'Palamon and Arcita'. Engraving by Francis Chesham, after John Hamilton Mortimer. Plate from an edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, published by John Raphael Smith, London, 1787.
Physical description
Plate depicting Palamon and Arcita.
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.5cm
  • Length: 18.1cm
Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1960 and 1961 London: HMSO 1964
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
'Drawn by Mortimer London published Feby 12th 1787 by J R Smith No.31 King Street Covent Garden' (Lettered with title, etc. and)
Object history
Another impression of this engraving, a plate from Mortimer's Works..., published by Thomas Palser, London, 1816, is in the Department of Prints and Drawings, E.3697-1902. Other engravings after J. H. Mortimer from the Canterbury Tales, by J. Hogg, J. K. Sherwin and E. Williams, are E.391-939, 477, 480-1961.
Subjects depicted
Knights
Palamon
Arcita
Literary reference'Canterbury Tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer
Associated object
E.3697-1902 (Copy)
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1960 and 1961 London: HMSO, 1964
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.369-1961

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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