Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise Print

Accession number: 
PML 145499, plate 013
Author: 
Martin, John, 1789-1854, illustrator, engraver.
Published: 
[London : Septimus Prowett, 23 Old Bond Street, 1827]
Description: 
1 print : mezzotint ; image: 138 x 199 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Title from Campbell & Wees.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 13, 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 12, line 641, of Milton's "Paradise lost" (London : Septimus Prowett, 1825-1827).
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption "Book 12 line 641", with production and publication detail below: "Drawn & Engraved by J. Martin Esqr." and "Published by Septimus Prowett, 62 Paternoster Row, 1827"
The small plate issue.
Library's copy trimmed to image, with loss of caption and lettering.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows Adam and Eve in wilderness on a rocky path at right, the ethereal light of Eden visible between rocks behind them.

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