Accession number
PML 145499, plate 005
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 5, 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 4, line 502, 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 5, 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 4, line 502, 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 with etching ; 150 x 198 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Adam and Eve sitting together on the left, watched by Satan who hides behind a tall, gnarled tree in the right foreground, in a landscape with banks of trees on either side and a gentle valley between.
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