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Three Gamblers and Time, an Illustration to Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

(English, active late 18th century)
(English, 1740–1779)
Medium/TechniqueEtching, working proof
DimensionsImage: 20.4 x 15.2 cm (8 1/16 x 6 in.)
Platemark: 27.8 x 19 cm (10 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 44.4 x 29.4 cm (17 1/2 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Margaret and Thomas McCormick
Accession number2007.927
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsVerso, lower left in graphite pencil: 75.127
ProvenanceMargaret and Thomas McCormick (Brookline, MA); their gift to MFA, December 12, 2007.
James David Smillie
July 1880
The Farm Lane
James David Smillie
July 1880
Necklace
Dorothy Hogg
before 1998
Wedding dress
Hogg, Brown and Taylor's
1873