Geoffrey Chaucer, 1823

  • Jacob Houbraken, Dutch, 1698-1780
  • J. Robins & Co., English
  • Edward Scriven, English, 1775-1841

Stipple engraving printed in black on laid paper

  • plate: 7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in. 19.3 x 13.9 cm sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. 28.2 x 20.7 cm

Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund

F72.283.163

In plate, lower center: GEOFFREY CHAUCER. / Engraved by E. Scriven, after Houbraken. / Published by J. Robins & Co. London, July 1, 1823.

Kennedy Gallery and Edith Cole Silberstein

Edward Scriven; after Jacob Houbraken, Geoffrey Chaucer, 1823, Stipple engraving printed in black on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.163.