Accession number
PML 145499, plate 010
Creator
Martin, John, 1789-1854.
Published
[London : Septimus Prowett, 1825]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Campbell & Wees.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 10, 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 10, line 863, of Milton's "Paradise lost" (London : Septimus Prowett, 1825-1827).
The small plate issue.
Library's copy trimmed to image, with loss of caption and lettering.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 10, 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 10, line 863, of Milton's "Paradise lost" (London : Septimus Prowett, 1825-1827).
The small plate issue.
Library's copy trimmed to image, with loss of caption and lettering.
Description
1 print : mezzotint ; 143 x 198 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Adam standing on the left, clothed in animal skins, raising his left arm as he reproves Eve, who kneels in front of him, covering her face with her hands and her hair, with a gnarled tree to the left of them, and the luxuriant landscape of Paradise immersed in gloom in the background.
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