A woman (May) leads a man (January) under a tree in which there is somone hiding and some onlookers are pointing at the scene. Engraving by C. Mosley after S. Wale.

  • Wale, Samuel, -1786.
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[1752]
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28462i
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The story of January and May in 'The merchant's tale', one of the Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, as retold in the poem January and May by Alexander Pope, 1709

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[London] : [J. and P. Knapton], [1752]

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1 print : engraving ; image 12.5 x 8 cm

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Old as he was, and void of eyesight too, What cou'd alas! a helpless husband do. Sam. Wale delin. C. Moseley sculp.

References note

Philip Smallwood, 'Great Anna's Chaucer: Pope's January and May and the logic of settlement', in Cedric D. Reverand II (ed.), Queen Anne and the arts, Lewisburg 2015, pp. 99-118 (this engraving pp. 110-111)

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Wellcome Collection 28462i

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