Paradise Lost (volume I)

1827

John Martin

Artist, British, 1789 - 1854

John Milton

Author, English, 1608 - 1674

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with text and mezzotints on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1979.68.1

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

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).

Inscriptions

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

Markings

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

Watermarks

WHATMAN

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