Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer
Artist
Unidentified
Engraver
Jacobus Houbraken
(Dutch, born Dordrecht, Netherlands 1690-died Amsterdam, Netherlands 1780)
Publisher
J. & P. Knapton
(British)
Date1742
Mediumline engraving
Dimensions
frame: 26 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (67.3 × 52.1 cm)
sight: 15 1/8 × 9 3/4 in. (38.4 × 24.8 cm)
ClassificationPrint
Credit LineGift of Dr. Earle W. Newton
Object number2001.1.1018
DescriptionPortrait of man (Geoffrey Chaucer) wearing robe and head dress, necklace with three pearls and triangular shaped pendant hanging on chest, portrait is hanging on stone wall above mantle with lyre and scrolls beneath it
On frame: “Geoffrey Chaucer”
On frame: “Geoffrey Chaucer”
Not on view