‘DESIGNED & ENGRAVED BY J. MARTIN ESQ. BOOK 5. LINE 136’

– Mezzotint titled ‘Paradise – Adam and Eve – The Morning Hymn’. A serene landscape at dawn with Adam and Eve depicted kneeling in worship near a pool, surrounded by Edenic forest and rising sun in the distance ? the setting for their Morning Hymn in Milton’s Paradise Lost.

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Description

Medium: Mezzotint on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 28 x 18 cm (11.02 x 7.09 inch). Image size: 21 x 15 cm. (8.27 x 5.91 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Toning from previous matting. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

JOHN MARTIN, PARADISE LOST, ADAM AND EVE, MORNING HYMN, EDEN, ROMANTICISM, 19TH CENTURY MEZZOTINT, BIBLICAL ART | EXPO-ENGLISH

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The Paradise Lost of Milton, with illustrations by John Martin, published by Septimus Prowett, London, 1827.

Reference: V&A accession no. E.594-1968.

Biography engraver: John Martin (1789-1854), British Romantic painter and mezzotint engraver, known for dramatic Biblical landscapes and apocalyptic visions.