
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
£25,000 - £35,000
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The Artist, from whom acquired by
Professor Nevill Henry K.A. Coghill (1899-1980), thence by family descent to the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.
Professor Nevill Henry K.A. Coghill was an English literary scholar, known especially for his modern English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and was Merton Professor of English literature at the University of Oxford from 1957 to 1966. Elisabeth Frink and Professor Coghill became friends following their work together on her 'Canterbury Tales' series (see Stephen Gardiner, Frink, Harper Collins, London, 1998, p.176).