Satan, Sin and Death (Paradise Lost, Book the 2nd)

Satan, Sin and Death (Paradise Lost, Book the 2nd)

Thomas Rowlandson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A re-issue by Wilkinson of a print first published November 20, 1790. Publication information is printed on a small piece of paper glued under image and within plate mark (covering older text?). The image is based on a chiaroscuro copy by Livesay of a painting by Hogarth then in the collection of Mrs. Garrick, now Tate Britain.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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