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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