Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 224
t was presented tothe world. Mr. Hooper cut on wood the wholeof the drawings of twenty-three letters tothe twenty-four Canterbury Tales in 1871.The painting in the Ellesmere MS. is on leaf THE PORTRAITS OF CHAUCER. 495 157, back, and occurs on the left-hand of thepage opposite the following lines:—… … w88 nijtn yattfai THE ELLESMERE PORTRAIT OF CHAUCER. copies of copies, sufficiently alike to confusethe student, yet without difference enough toinvest them with the highest historical interest.The majority are at bottom so many acts ofreverence to the poet, called forth by thesimple desire to have…
