Paradise Lost (volume I), 1827

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series Title

(1 of 2 volumes, 1979.68.1-2)

Medium

bound volume with text and mezzotints on wove paper

Dimensions

book: 37.7 × 27.5 × 4.2 cm (14 13/16 × 10 13/16 × 1 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow

Accession Number

1979.68.1

Artists / Makers

John Martin (artist) British, 1789 - 1854

John Milton (author) English, 1608 - 1674

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Inscription

in gold-tooled letters on spine of red leather binding: PARADISE LOST / MARTIN'S / ILLUSTRATIONS / VOL. I

Marks and Labels

bookplate inside front cover: PRO TANTO QUID RETRIBUAMUS / HODGSON / Bookseller, Station.r / and Vender of / PATENT MEDICINES / LOTTERY OFFICE &c. / HIGH 9 STREET / BELFAST / J. Thomson Sculpsit

Exhibition History

1995: Thomas Cole's Paintings of Eden, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 1995, 24, fig. 7 (exhibited John Martin's Adam and Eve - The Morning Hymn, mezzotint).