Accession number
PML 145499, plate 006
Creator
Martin, John, 1789-1854.
Published
[London : Septimus Prowett, 23 Old Bond Street, 1826]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Campbell & Wees.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 6, 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.
Mezzotint designed and engraved by John Martin to illustrate book 9, line 780, of Milton's "Paradise lost" (London : Septimus Prowett, 1825-1827).
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption "Book 9 line 780", with production and publication detail below: "Drawn & Engraved by J.Martin Esqr." and "London Published by Septimus Prowett, 23 Old Bond Street, 1825".
The small plate issue.
Library's copy trimmed to image, with loss of caption and lettering.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 6, 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.
Mezzotint designed and engraved by John Martin to illustrate book 9, line 780, of Milton's "Paradise lost" (London : Septimus Prowett, 1825-1827).
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption "Book 9 line 780", with production and publication detail below: "Drawn & Engraved by J.Martin Esqr." and "London Published by Septimus Prowett, 23 Old Bond Street, 1825".
The small plate issue.
Library's copy trimmed to image, with loss of caption and lettering.
Description
1 print : mezzotint ; image: 142 x 199 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Eve standing under a great gnarled tree at the edge of a pool, the sun hidden by its branches, reaching up with one hand to hold a bough, around which Satan, disguised as a serpent, is entwined, holding an apple in the other, listening to the snake.
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