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The Angel Raphael relates the story of Creation to Adam and Eve [print].

Accession number
PML 145499, plate 003
Creator
Kirk, Thomas, 1765?-1797, engraver.
Published
[London : John and Josiah Boydell, 1795]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 3, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Stipple engraving by Thomas Kirk after a design by Richard Westall, for John and Josiah Boydell's "The poetical works of John Milton" (London, 1794-1797).
Library's copy trimmed to image, with loss of signatures and lettering.
Description
1 print : stipple engraving ; image: 215 x 155 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the Angel Raphael seated beneath a tree in Paradise and addressing Adam and Eve, who both sit listening attentively at right.
Classification
Department