Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council, from "Paradise Lost" by John Milton
John Martin, English, 1789 - 1854
1824; published 1825
Mezzotint on wove paper
Image: 7 11/16 × 10 7/8 in. (19.5 × 27.7 cm)
Plate: 10 1/16 × 13 3/4 in. (25.5 × 35 cm)
Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 1/2 in. (27.2 × 36.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards Fund
PR.988.49
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower center: Designed & Engraved by J. Martin Esqr/ (in script) Book 2 line 1 / London, Published by Septimus Prowett, 23 Old Bond Street, 1825
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 14.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 14.
Provenance
C. & J. Goodfriend Drawings and Prints, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1988.
Catalogue Raisonne
J. D. Wees, Darkness Visible: The Prints of John Martin, Williamstown, 1986, no. 10.
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