Paradise Lost. The Angelick Blast Fill'd the Regions. [Book 11, line 78.]. Original Print.
by Martin, John. [John Milton]
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London:: Septimus Prowett (Old Bond Street),, 1825.. Folio. 245 x 355 [image 192 x 277mm].. Mezzotint print, on wove paper, some foxing, light stain at upper left corner, minor tear outer edge. Suitable for framing. ÒMartin, John (1789Ð1854), artist. Mezzotint is a medium peculiarly suited to Manichaean fantasies: the black void of the prepared plate, blackness scraped away to create forms and highlights. Paradise Lost, illustrated in two sets of mezzotints for the publisher Septimus Prowett in 1825Ð7, was ideal material for Martin, who echoed Milton's solemnity while opening out his cadences in the imagery of groves and chases bathed in silvery light and an underworld where fires tongue the darkness and bridges span nothingness and Satan's armies infest the gloom. In mezzotint Martin's vision thrived. His subjects, biblical and Miltonic, lent themselves to vast generalizations dotted with microscopic particulars. " [-ODNB].
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- Dark Parks Books & Collectibles (US)
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- Title
- Paradise Lost. The Angelick Blast Fill'd the Regions. [Book 11, line 78.]. Original Print.
- Author
- Martin, John. [John Milton]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Septimus Prowett (Old Bond Street),
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1825.
- Pages
- Single leaf.
- Size
- Folio. 245 x 355 [image 192 x 27
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