Leaf of "Canterbury Tales"
Artist
Geoffrey Chaucer
(English, 1343 - 1400)
Date1476
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsSheet: 9 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (24.13 × 16.51 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Kirkwood Estate
Object number34-315/5
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Terms
[No known exhibition history is present at this time.]
Probably William Rockhill Nelson (1841-1915), Oak Hall, Kansas City, MO, by 1915 [1];
Probably inherited by his daughter, Laura Nelson Kirkwood (1883-1926), Kansas City, MO, 1915-1926;
Inherited by her husband, Irwin Kirkwood (1878-1927), Kansas City, MO, 1926-1927;
Kirkwood Estate, 1927-1934;
Gift of the Kirkwood Estate to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] This is one of a group of objects that came to the Nelson-Atkins from the family of William Rockhill Nelson, one of the museum’s founders, and is thought to have been in Nelson’s home, Oak Hall.
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