Name: Antique Master Print-PARADISE-LOST-SATAN-ADAM-EVE-John Martin-1826
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Antique Master Print-PARADISE-LOST-SATAN-ADAM-EVE-John Martin-1826

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‘DESIGNED & ENGRAVED BY J. MARTIN ESQ. BOOK 4. LINE 502’

– Mezzotint titled ‘Satan contemplating Adam and Eve in Paradise’. In a lush and luminous Edenic landscape, Adam and Eve rest lovingly under trees, while Satan lurks ominously behind a trunk in the shadowed right, watching them ? a striking moment from 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, SATAN, ADAM AND EVE, EDEN, BIBLICAL ART, ROMANTICISM, 19TH CENTURY MEZZOTINT, MILTON | EXPO-ENGLISH

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The Paradise Lost of Milton, with illustrations by John Martin, published by Septimus Prowett, London, 1826.

Reference: V&A accession no. E.591-1968.

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