Record ID:
450509
Accession number:
MA 23867
Created:
[London] : [Printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton], [1734]
Description:
1 print : etching ; sheet: 151 x 92 mm
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Lettered below image: Nectens aut Paphia Myrti, aut Parnasside Lauri / Fronde comas, at ego secura pace guiescam / Milton's Mansus.
Print issued as a frontispiece illustration in Richardon's Explanatory notes and remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost (London : Printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton, 1734).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Portrait of John Milton as a middle-aged man with shoulder-length wavy hair; head and shoulders directed slightly to right, looking towards the viewer, wearing a plain white square collar and a cloak swathed around his shoulders and crowned with a laurel wreath; after Faithorne, with the addition of the laurel wreath.
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