print
- Museum number
- 1868,0612.2191
- Title
- Object: John Milton Composing Paradise Lost
- Description
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Milton dictating to Ellwood the Quaker, the poet seated with his cane beside him, gesturing with right hand, looking towards the viewer blindly, with Ellwood sitting to right at a table, writing with a quill, listening attentively, wearing a broad-brimmed hat, and one of Milton's daughters replacing books in shelves to left, standing on a ladder, beside an organ; lettered state. 1804-5, published posthumously in 1807
Etching
- Production date
- 1807
- Dimensions
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Height: 580 millimetres
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Width: 420 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Paradise Lost
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Acquisition notes
- See for the provenance from Haviland Burke, 1868,0612.2136
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0612.2191