Picture No | 10218898 |
Date | 1901 |
Description | The Canterbury Pilgrims in the Yard of the Tabard Inn, 1387. |
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An artist's impression of how Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims may have looked as they stood in the yard of the Tabard Inn, 17th April 1387. Only nineteen out of Chaucer's thirty-two pilgrims are pictured in this image. On foot, from left to right, are the following: Friar, Groom, Chaucer, Reeve, Summoner, Pardoner, Cook, Miller, Serjeant-at-Law and the Monk. Mounted on horses, left to right, are: Manciple, Squire, Shipman, Host, Knight, Prioress, Nun's Priest, Franklin, Wife of Bath and the Doctor.
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Source | The Sphere. 1901. page 44. By P.D. Hardy |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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