- Title:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- This portrait of the "father of English literature" (d. 1400) complements editions of Chaucer's works in Senate House Library, including the edition of The Canterbury Tales printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1492 and several facsimiles of the Ellesmere manuscript.
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Charles Montague, 1st Earl of Halifax (sale 1739/40); Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0105
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c09e4014-1a01-3aee-ad0c-0984076626d0
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c09e4014-1a01-3aee-ad0c-0984076626d0, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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