Canterbury tales mural by ezra winter. North reading room, west wall, library of congress john adams building, washington, d. C. According to the inscription, this mural shows (left to right): "the miller, in the lead, piping the band out of southwark; the host of tabard inn; the knight, followed by his son, the young squire, on a white palfrey; a yeoman; the doctor of physic; chaucer, riding with his back to the observer, as he talks to the lawyer; the clerk of oxenford, reading his beloved classics; the manciple; the sailor; the prioress; the nun; and three priests. " (source: john y. Cole, on these walls. Washington, d. C. : library of congress, 1995, p. 79). Date: 1939.
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