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Creator:
Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Title:

Wife of Bath's Tale

Part Of:

Collective Title: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Date:
1972
Medium:
Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 1/8 inches (80 × 58.7 cm), Image: 19 5/8 × 13 5/8 inches (49.8 × 34.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "50/50"; lower center: "The Wife of Bath's Tale"; on verso, lower left: "3626.80.16 | TR 3626/16 | ELIZABETH FRINK | ENG. 20"

Stamp, blind-embossed, lower right: "W"

Signed in graphite, lower right: "Frink"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Copyright Status:
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:
B2022.7.48
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
literary theme | The Canterbury Tales (14th c) | The Wife of Bath's Tale
Associated People:
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343–1400), English poet
Access:
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:83425
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