Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden: Adam listens to the warnings of the Archangel Raphael while Eve plucks grapes from a vine. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi after T. Stothard, 1792.

  • Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.
Date:
[1792]
Reference:
2823159i
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Description

John Milton, Paradise lost book 5, referring to Raphael: "Him through the spicie forrest onward com / Adam discernd, as in the dore he sat / Of his coole bowre, while now the mounted sun / Shot down direct his fervid raies, to warme / Earths inmost womb, more warmth then Adam need; / And Eve within, due at her hour prepar'd / For dinner savourie fruits, of taste to please / True appetite, and not disrelish thirst / Of nectarous draughts between, from milkie stream, / Berrie or grape: to whom thus Adam call'd …"

Publication/Creation

[London] : [Jeffryes], [1792]

Physical description

1 print : stipple engraving, with etching ; platemark 48 x 38 cm

Edition

[State before letters].

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2823159i

Type/Technique

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