Accession number
PML 145499, plate 002
Creator
Martin, John, 1789-1854.
Published
[London : Septimus Prowett, 1825]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from British Museum catalog.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 2, 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 5, line 136, of Milton's "Paradise lost" (London : Septimus Prowett, 1825-1827).
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption "Book 9 line 995", with production and publication detail below: "Drawn & Engraved by J.Martin Esqr." and "Published 1825 by Septimus Prowett, 23 Old Bond Street."
The small plate issue.
Library's copy trimmed to image, with loss of caption and lettering.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 2, 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 5, line 136, of Milton's "Paradise lost" (London : Septimus Prowett, 1825-1827).
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption "Book 9 line 995", with production and publication detail below: "Drawn & Engraved by J.Martin Esqr." and "Published 1825 by Septimus Prowett, 23 Old Bond Street."
The small plate issue.
Library's copy trimmed to image, with loss of caption and lettering.
Description
1 print : mezzotint ; image: 143 x 197 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A view of Paradise, with a lake in the center, trees forming a pyramid on the opposite bank, ringed by woods behind, swans on the water, preparing to fly, Adam and Eve to left, on a low hill with tall trees and weeping willows at the edge of the lake behind them, bowing in prayer, as the sunlight breaks across the horizon.
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