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Studies for ‘The Pilgrimage to Canterbury’ (N01163). A00868-A00877 studies of groups, figures, heads etc.
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Pilgrimage to Canterbury with a compositional a key to figures and heads and figures
Presented by Henry Vaughan 1891
adults
animals: mammals
artist’s notes
Chaucer, Geoffrey, ‘Canterbury Tales’ - non-specific
horse
inscriptions
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
man
people
pilgrimage
procession
religion and belief
religious
symbols and personifications
universal religious imagery
woman
work and occupations
<p>Stothard chose to break up his long composition of the Canterbury Pilgrims into five groups. Each is dominated by a prominent figure in Chaucer’s text: the Host, the Squire, Chaucer, the Wife of Bath, and the Cook.</p><p>In these sketches Stothard tries out studies for the Squire, and also experiments with the whole composition and the key to the characters.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique ink
24 March 2003 – 17 November 2003
2003-11-17
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-03-24
Blake and Illustration
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Sketch for ‘The Pilgrimage to Canterbury’, with a compositional sketch, a key to the figures, and studies of heads and figures
support: 114 × 190 mm
Presented by Henry Vaughan 1891
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    Stothard chose to break up his long <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> of the      Canterbury Pilgrims  into five groups. Each is dominated by  a prominent      figure in Chaucer’s text:  the Host, the Squire, Chaucer, the Wife  of Bath, and the Cook.  
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    In these sketches Stothard tries out studies for the      Squire, and also experiments with the whole      composition and the key  to the characters.   </div>

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adults animals: mammals artist’s notes Chaucer, Geoffrey, ‘Canterbury Tales’ - non-specific horse inscriptions literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) man people pilgrimage procession religion and belief religious symbols and personifications universal religious imagery woman work and occupations