The Manciple’s Tale
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1972, Elisabeth Frink
Edition Number: c196
Unsigned from an unbound set with cover signature (see images).
Supplied in conservation standard mount and a new solid wood black frame. The print is in excellent condition.
The etching aquatints illustrating Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ are from one of 175 unbound sets signed by the artist from 1972. The edition was of 275 + 25 Hors de Commerce, of which 175 were produced in the unbound edition we have for sale.
The etchings are printed on J. Barcham Green wove paper. Printed by Cliff White at White Ink, London. Published by Leslie Waddington Prints Ltd.
Each piece of paper includes an excerpt of text and we are supplying these etchings framed. When framing the etchings, we decided to mount out the text. We felt the etched images were shown to their best effect without the text in view.
See below for text featured on this etching.
£498.75
In stock
Further Information
The text from The Manciple’s Tale is:
And to the crow he said O wicked Thief.Now I shall pay you for your lying tale Once you sang so sweetly like a nightingale,
But now, false Thief, your liquid song is done And your snowy feathers every one
Never in all your life to utter word Vengeance shall fall upon you traitor-bird.
You and your issue ever shall be black Their sweetest music like your own shall crack
And you shall croak, fortelling storm and rain, In token That through you my wife was slain
And up he started at the crow and tore The fair white feathers out that once it bore
And made it black, and took away its song And power of speech and flung it forth headlong
Down to the devil, nor do I wish it back, And that’s the reason Why all crows are black.
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