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\u201c\u2026Tasso dresses out his \u2018gods of the abyss in hair of snakes, and immense voluminous tails[\u2019].\u2026The same might be said of Dante, of M. Angelo, and of Raffael\u2026; they have painted Satan, according to the old women\u2019s conception of him, with horns and claws. But Milton\u2019s touches of character are of a nobler and more spiritual kind; and indeed it is a piece of justice due to his superior talents, to observe, that he was the first man of genius who was able to make any poetical use (that was not more ridiculous than sublime) of the great personages and imagery of our religion\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 James Barry, An Inquiry into the Real and Imaginary Obstructions to the Acquisition of the Arts in England<\/em> (1775)<\/strong><\/p>\n

WORKS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Milton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Book I of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book II of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book IV of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book VI of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book VII of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book IX of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book X of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book XII of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Miscellaneous<\/strong><\/p>\n

MILTON<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Milton dictating to Ellwood the Quaker<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1804\u20135
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching and engraving with some aquatint on ivory
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 57.8 cm (plate)
\nWidth: 42.3 cm (plate)
\nHeight: 67.4 cm (sheet)
\nWidth: 52.6 cm (sheet)
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nArt Institute of Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n

John Milton Composing Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1807
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching with engraving
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 58 cm
\nWidth: 42 cm
\nLocations<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nNational Galleries of Scotland<\/a><\/p>\n

BOOK I OF PARADISE LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole Subject, Man\u2019s disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was plac\u2019t:<\/em> Then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, or rather<\/em> Satan in the Serpent; who revolting from God, and drawing to his side many Legions of Angels, was by the command of God driven out of Heaven with all his Crew into the great Deep.<\/em>   Which action past over, the Poem hastes into the midst of things, presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into Hell,<\/em> describ\u2019d here, not in the Centre<\/em> (for Heaven and Earth may be suppos\u2019d as yet not made, certainly not yet accurst) but in a place of utter darkness, fitliest call\u2019d<\/em> Chaos: Here<\/em> Satan with his Angels lying on the burning Lake, thunder-struck and astonisht, after a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in Order and Dignity lay by him; they confer of thir miserable fall.<\/em>   Satan awakens all his Legions, who lay till then in the same manner confounded; They rise, thir Numbers, array of Battle, thir chief Leaders nam\u2019d, according to the Idols known afterwards in<\/em> Canaan and the Countries adjoining.<\/em>   To these<\/em> Satan directs his Speech, comforts them with hope yet of regaining Heaven, but tells them lastly of a new World and new kind of Creature to be created, according to an ancient Prophecy or report in Heaven;<\/em> for that Angels were long before this visible Creation, was the opinion of many ancient Fathers.   To find out the truth of this Prophecy, and what to determine thereon he refers to a full Council.   What his Associates thence attempt.<\/em>   Pandemonium the Palace of<\/em> Satan rises, suddenly built out of the Deep: The infernal Peers there sit in Council.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book I of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

Preparatory study for Satan and His Legions Hurling Defiance toward the Vault of Heaven<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1792\u201394
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nReed pen and brown ink, with grey wash, over black chalk
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 68.8 cm
\nWidth: 49.5 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cHe spake: and to confirm his words, out-flew
\nMillions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs
\nOf mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze
\nFar round illumin\u2019d hell: highly they rag\u2019d
\nAgainst the Highest, and fierce with grasped Arms
\nClash\u2019d on thir sounding shields the din of war,
\nHurling defiance toward the Vault of Heav\u2019n.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book I, 663\u201369)<\/p>\n

Satan and His Legions Hurling Defiance toward the Vault of Heaven<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1792\u201394
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 74.6 cm
\nWidth: 50.4 cm
\nLocations<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nBritish Museum (2)<\/a>
\nBritish Museum (3)<\/a>
\nTate Britain<\/a>, London
\nThe Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology<\/a>, Oxford
\nNational Gallery of Victoria<\/a>, Melbourne
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cHe spake: and to confirm his words, out-flew
\nMillions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs
\nOf mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze
\nFar round illumin\u2019d hell: highly they rag\u2019d
\nAgainst the Highest, and fierce with grasped Arms
\nClash\u2019d on thir sounding shields the din of war,
\nHurling defiance toward the Vault of Heav\u2019n.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book I, 663\u201369)<\/p>\n

BOOK  II  OF  PARADISE  LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Consultation begun,<\/em> Satan debates whether another Battle be to be hazarded for the recovery of Heaven: some advise it, others dissuade: A third proposal is preferr\u2019d, mention\u2019d before by<\/em> Satan, to search the truth of that Prophecy or Tradition in Heaven concerning another world, and another kind of creature equal or not much inferior to themselves, about this time to be created: Thir doubt who shall be sent on this difficult search:<\/em> Satan thir chief undertakes alone the voyage, is honor\u2019d and applauded.   The Council thus ended, the rest betake them several ways and to several employments, as thir inclinations lead them, to entertain the time till<\/em> Satan return.   He passes on his Journey to Hell Gates, finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them, by whom at length they are op\u2019n\u2019d, and discover to him the great Gulf between Hell and Heaven; with what difficulty he passes through, directed by<\/em> Chaos, the Power of that place, to the sight of this new World which he sought.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book II of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

Satan, Sin and Death<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1792\u201395
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 56.8 cm
\nWidth: 51 cm
\nLocations<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nBritish Museum (2)<\/a>
\nBritish Museum (3)<\/a>
\nBritish Museum (4)<\/a>
\nBritish Museum (5)<\/a>
\nBritish Museum (6)<\/a>
\nBritish Museum (7)<\/a>
\nTate Britain<\/a>, London
\nVictoria and Albert Museum<\/a>, London
\nNational Gallery of Victoria<\/a>, Melbourne
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo spake the grisly terror, and in shape,
\nSo speaking and so threat\u2019ning, grew tenfold
\nMore dreadful and deform: on th\u2019 other side
\nIncens\u2019t with indignation Satan<\/em> stood
\nUnterrifi\u2019d, and like a Comet burn\u2019d,
\nThat fires the length of Ophiucus<\/em> huge
\nIn th\u2019 Artic Sky, and from his horrid hair
\nShakes Pestilence and War.   Each at the Head
\nLevell\u2019d his deadly aim; thir fatal hands
\nNo second stroke intend, and such a frown
\nEach cast at th\u2019 other, as when two black Clouds
\nWith Heav\u2019n\u2019s Artillery fraught, come rattling on
\nOver the Caspian,<\/em> then stand front to front
\nHov\u2019ring a space, till Winds the signal blow
\nTo join thir dark Encounter in mid air:
\nSo frown\u2019d the mighty Combatants, that Hell
\nGrew darker at thir frown, so matcht they stood;
\nFor never but once more was either like
\nTo meet so great a foe: and now great deeds
\nHad been achiev\u2019d, whereof all Hell had rung,
\nHad not the Snaky Sorceress that sat
\nFast by Hell Gate, and kept the fatal Key,
\nRis\u2019n, and with hideous outcry rush\u2019d between.
\nO Father, what intends thy hand, she cri\u2019d,
\nAgainst thy only Son? What fury O Son,
\nPossesses thee to bend that mortal Dart
\nAgainst thy Father\u2019s head?\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 704\u201330)<\/p>\n

Preparatory study for Satan, Sin and Death<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1792\u201395
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nGraphite, brush and brown ink, gray and brown wash heightened with touches of white
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 59 cm (sheet)
\nWidth: 41.6 cm (sheet)
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>, New York
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo spake the grisly terror, and in shape,
\nSo speaking and so threat\u2019ning, grew tenfold
\nMore dreadful and deform: on th\u2019 other side
\nIncens\u2019t with indignation Satan<\/em> stood
\nUnterrifi\u2019d, and like a Comet burn\u2019d,
\nThat fires the length of Ophiucus<\/em> huge
\nIn th\u2019 Artic Sky, and from his horrid hair
\nShakes Pestilence and War.   Each at the Head
\nLevell\u2019d his deadly aim; thir fatal hands
\nNo second stroke intend, and such a frown
\nEach cast at th\u2019 other, as when two black Clouds
\nWith Heav\u2019n\u2019s Artillery fraught, come rattling on
\nOver the Caspian,<\/em> then stand front to front
\nHov\u2019ring a space, till Winds the signal blow
\nTo join thir dark Encounter in mid air:
\nSo frown\u2019d the mighty Combatants, that Hell
\nGrew darker at thir frown, so matcht they stood;
\nFor never but once more was either like
\nTo meet so great a foe: and now great deeds
\nHad been achiev\u2019d, whereof all Hell had rung,
\nHad not the Snaky Sorceress that sat
\nFast by Hell Gate, and kept the fatal Key,
\nRis\u2019n, and with hideous outcry rush\u2019d between.
\nO Father, what intends thy hand, she cri\u2019d,
\nAgainst thy only Son? What fury O Son,
\nPossesses thee to bend that mortal Dart
\nAgainst thy Father\u2019s head?\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 704\u201330)<\/p>\n

The Birth of Sin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1792\u201394
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and brown ink over black chalk
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 23 cm
\nWidth: 20.4 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Oxford
\n[See Tom Dunne, ed. James Barry, 1741 \u2013 1806: \u201cThe Great Historical Painter\u201d<\/em> (Cork and Kinsale, Co. Cork: Crawford Art Gallery and Gandon Editions, 2005), p. 160; William L. Pressly, The Life and Art of James Barry<\/em> (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981), p. 167.]
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026In Heav\u2019n, when at th\u2019 Assembly, and in sight
\nOf all the Seraphim with thee combin\u2019d
\nIn bold conspiracy against Heav\u2019n\u2019s King,
\nAll on a sudden miserable pain
\nSurpris\u2019d thee, dim thine eyes, and dizzy swum
\nIn darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast
\nThrew forth, till on the left side op\u2019ning wide,
\nLikest to thee in shape and count\u2019nance bright,
\nThen shining heav\u2019nly fair, a Goddess arm\u2019d
\nOut of thy head I sprung: amazement seiz\u2019d
\nAll th\u2019 Host of Heav\u2019n\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 749\u201359)<\/p>\n

Satan\u2019s Ascent from Hell<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nc.1792\u201394
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and brown ink over black chalk
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 22.6 cm
\nWidth: 22 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Oxford
\n[See Tom Dunne, ed. James Barry, 1741 \u2013 1806: \u201cThe Great Historical Painter\u201d<\/em> (Cork and Kinsale, Co. Cork: Crawford Art Gallery and Gandon Editions, 2005), p. 160.]
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026Into this wild Abyss the wary fiend
\nStood on the brink of Hell and look\u2019d a while,
\nPondering his Voyage: for no narrow frith
\nHe had to cross.   Nor was his ear less peal\u2019d
\nWith noises loud and ruinous.\u2026
\n\u2026At last his Sail-broad Vans
\nHe spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke
\nUplifted spurns the ground, thence many a League
\nAs in a cloudy Chair ascending rides
\nAudacious\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 917\u201321, 927\u201331)<\/p>\n

Satan at the Abode of Chaos and Old Night<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1792\u201395
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and brown and black ink with grey wash over black chalk on laid paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 55.4 cm
\nWidth: 41.7 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nRoyal Academy of Arts<\/a>, London
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cT\u2019 whom Satan<\/em> turning boldly, thus.    Ye Powers
\nAnd Spirits of this nethermost Abyss,
\nChaos<\/em> and ancient Night,<\/em> I come no Spy,
\nWith purpose to explore or to disturb
\nThe secrets of your Realm, but by constraint
\nWand\u2019ring this darksome Desert, as my way
\nLies through your spacious Empire up to light,
\nAlone, and without guide, half lost, I seek
\nWhat readiest path leads where your gloomy bounds
\nConfine with Heav\u2019n; or if some other place
\nFrom your Dominion won, th\u2019 Ethereal King
\nPossesses lately, thither to arrive
\nI travel this profound, direct my course;
\nDirected, no mean recompence it brings
\nTo your behoof, if I that Region lost,
\nAll usurpation thence expell\u2019d, reduce
\nTo her original darkness and your sway
\n(Which is my present journey) and once more
\nErect the Standard there of ancient Night;<\/em>
\nYours be th\u2019 advantage all, mine the revenge.
\nThus Satan;<\/em> and him thus the Anarch old
\nWith falt\u2019ring speech and visage incompos\u2019d
\nAnswer\u2019d.  I know thee, stranger, who thou art,
\nThat mighty leading Angel, who of late
\nMade head against Heav\u2019n\u2019s King, though overthrown.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 968\u201392)<\/p>\n

BOOK  IV  OF  PARADISE  LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSatan now in prospect of<\/em> Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprise which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions, fear, envy, and despair; but at length confirms himself in evil, journeys on to Paradise, whose outward prospect and situation is described, overleaps the bounds, sits in the shape of a Cormorant on the Tree of Life, as highest in the Garden to look about him.   The Garden describ\u2019d;<\/em> Satan\u2019s first sight of<\/em> Adam and<\/em> Eve; his wonder at thir excellent form and happy state, but with resolution to work thir fall; overhears thir discourse, thence gathers that the Tree of Knowledge was forbidden them to eat of, under penalty of death; and thereon intends to found his Temptation, by seducing them to transgress: then leaves them a while, to know further of thir state by some other means.   Meanwhile<\/em> Uriel descending on a Sun-beam warns<\/em> Gabriel, who had in charge the Gate of Paradise, that some evil spirit had escap\u2019d the Deep, and past at Noon by his Sphere in the shape of a good Angel down to Paradise, discovered after by his furious gestures in the Mount.<\/em>   Gabriel promises to find him ere morning.   Night coming on,<\/em> Adam and<\/em> Eve discourse of going to thir rest: thir Bower describ\u2019d; thir Evening worship.<\/em>   Gabriel drawing forth his Bands of Night-watch to walk the round of Paradise, appoints two strong Angels to<\/em> Adam\u2019s Bower, lest the evil spirit should be there doing some harm to<\/em> Adam or<\/em> Eve sleeping; there they find him at the ear of<\/em> Eve, tempting her in a dream, and bring him, though unwilling, to<\/em> Gabriel; by whom question\u2019d, he scornfully answers, prepares resistance, but hinder\u2019d by a Sign from Heaven, flies out of Paradise.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book IV of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

The Detection of Satan by Ithuriel<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1792\u201395
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and ink and wash over pencil
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 50.8 cm
\nWidth: 39.8 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nNelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
\n[See William L. Pressly, The Life and Art of James Barry<\/em> (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981), p. 164; William L. Pressly, James Barry: The Artist as Hero<\/em> (London: Tate Gallery Publications Department, 1983), p. 111.]
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo started up in his own shape the Fiend.
\nBack stepp\u2019d those two fair Angels half amaz\u2019d
\nSo sudden to behold the grisly King;
\nYet thus, unmov\u2019d with fear, accost him soon.
\nWhich of those rebel Spirits adjudg\u2019d to Hell
\nCom\u2019st thou, escap\u2019d thy prison, and transform\u2019d,
\nWhy satst thou like an enemy in wait
\nHere watching at the head of these that sleep?
\nKnow ye not then said Satan<\/em>, fill\u2019d with scorn,
\nKnow ye not mee? ye knew me once no mate
\nFor you, there sitting where ye durst not soar;
\nNot to know mee argues yourselves unknown,
\nThe lowest of your throng\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book IV, 819\u201331)<\/p>\n

BOOK  VI  OF  PARADISE  LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRaphael continues to relate how<\/em> Michael and<\/em> Gabriel were sent forth to Battle against<\/em> Satan and his Angels.   To first Fight describ\u2019d:<\/em> Satan and his Powers retire under Night: He calls a Council, invents devilish Engines, which in the second day\u2019s Fight put<\/em> Michael and his Angels to some disorder; but they at length pulling up Mountains overwhelm\u2019d both the force and Machines of<\/em> Satan: Yet the Tumult not so ending, God on the third day sends<\/em> Messiah his Son, for whom he had reserv\u2019d the glory of that Victory: Hee in the Power of his Father coming to the place, and causing all his Legions to stand still on either side, with his Chariot and Thunder driving into the midst of his Enemies, pursues them unable to resist towards the wall of Heaven; which opening, they leap down with horror and confusion into the place of punishment prepar\u2019d for them in the Deep:<\/em> Messiah returns with triumph to his Father.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book VI of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

Fall of the Rebel Angels<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1792\u201394
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and brown ink over black chalk
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 23 cm
\nWidth: 22.8 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nSir John Soane\u2019s Museum, London
\nThe Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Oxford
\n[See Tom Dunne, ed. James Barry, 1741 \u2013 1806: \u201cThe Great Historical Painter\u201d<\/em> (Cork and Kinsale, Co. Cork: Crawford Art Gallery and Gandon Editions, 2005), p. 162.]
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe overthrown he rais\u2019d, and as a Herd
\nOf Goats or timorous flock together throng\u2019d
\nDrove them before him Thunder-struck, pursu\u2019d
\nWith terrors and with furies to the bounds
\nAnd Crystal wall of Heav\u2019n, which op\u2019ning wide,
\nRoll\u2019d inward, and a spacious Gap disclos\u2019d
\nInto the wasteful Deep; the monstrous sight
\nStruck them with horror backward, but far worse
\nUrg\u2019d them behind; headlong themselves they threw
\nDown from the verge of Heav\u2019n, Eternal wrath
\nBurn\u2019d after them to the bottomless pit.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book VI, 856\u201366)<\/p>\n

BOOK  VII  OF  PARADISE  LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRaphael at the request of<\/em> Adam relates how and wherefore this world was first created; that God, after the expelling of<\/em> Satan and his Angels out of Heaven, declar\u2019d his pleasure to create another World and other Creatures to dwell therein; sends his Son with Glory and attendance of Angels to perform the work of Creation in six days: the Angels celebrate with Hymns the performance thereof, and his reascension into Heaven.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book VII of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

The Creation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1792\u201395
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and grey ink and grey wash over black chalk with white highlights
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 53.4 cm
\nWidth: 40.8 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Oxford
\n[See William L. Pressly, The Life and Art of James Barry<\/em> (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981), p. 166; Tom Dunne, ed. James Barry, 1741 \u2013 1806: \u201cThe Great Historical Painter\u201d<\/em> (Cork and Kinsale, Co. Cork: Crawford Art Gallery and Gandon Editions, 2005), p. 162.]
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026Heav\u2019n op\u2019n\u2019d wide
\nHer ever-during Gates, Harmonious sound
\nOn golden Hinges moving, to let forth
\nThe King of Glory in his powerful Word
\nAnd Spirit coming to create new Worlds.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book VII, 205\u201309)<\/p>\n

BOOK  IX  OF  PARADISE  LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSatan having compast the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mist by Night into Paradise, enters into the Serpent sleeping.<\/em>   Adam and<\/em> Eve in the Morning go forth to thir labors, which<\/em> Eve proposes to divide in several places, each laboring apart:<\/em> Adam consents not, alleging the danger, lest that Enemy, of whom they were forewarn\u2019d, should attempt her found alone:<\/em> Eve loath to be thought not circumspect or firm enough, urges her going apart, the rather desirous to make trial of her strength;<\/em> Adam at last yields: The Serpent finds her alone; his subtle approach, first gazing, then speaking, with much flattery extolling<\/em> Eve above all other Creatures.<\/em>   Eve wond\u2019ring to hear the Serpent speak, asks how he attain\u2019d to human speech and such understanding not till now; the Serpent answers, that by tasting of a certain Tree in the Garden he attain\u2019d both to Speech and Reason, till then void of both:<\/em> Eve requires him to bring her to that Tree, and finds it to be the Tree of Knowledge forbidden: The Serpent now grown bolder, with many wiles and arguments induces her at length to eat; she pleas\u2019d with the taste deliberates awhile whether to impart thereof to<\/em> Adam or not, at last brings him of the Fruit, relates what persuaded her to eat thereof:<\/em> Adam at first amaz\u2019d, but perceiving her lost, resolves through vehemence of love to perish with her; and extenuating the trespass, eats also of the Fruit: The effects thereof in them both; they seek to cover thir nakedness; then fall to variance and accusation of one another.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book IX of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

The Temptation of Adam<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1767\u20131770
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nOil on canvas
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 199.8 cm
\nWidth: 152.9 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nNational Gallery of Ireland<\/a>, Dublin
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cOn my experience, Adam<\/em>, freely taste,
\nAnd fear of Death deliver to the Winds.
\nSo saying, she embrac\u2019d him, and for joy
\nTenderly wept, much won that he his Love
\nHad so ennobl\u2019d, as of choice to incur
\nDivine displeasure for her sake, or Death.
\nIn recompense (for such compliance bad
\nSuch recompense best merits) from the bough
\nShe gave him of that fair enticing Fruit
\nWith liberal hand: he scrupl\u2019d not to eat
\nAgainst his better knowledge, not deceiv\u2019d,
\nBut fondly overcome with Female charm.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book IX, 988\u201399)<\/p>\n

Temptation of Adam<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1776
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching and engraving
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 65.5 cm
\nWidth: 45 cm
\nLocations<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nNational Gallery of Victoria<\/a>, Melbourne
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cOn my experience, Adam<\/em>, freely taste,
\nAnd fear of Death deliver to the Winds.
\nSo saying, she embrac\u2019d him, and for joy
\nTenderly wept, much won that he his Love
\nHad so ennobl\u2019d, as of choice to incur
\nDivine displeasure for her sake, or Death.
\nIn recompense (for such compliance bad
\nSuch recompense best merits) from the bough
\nShe gave him of that fair enticing Fruit
\nWith liberal hand: he scrupl\u2019d not to eat
\nAgainst his better knowledge, not deceiv\u2019d,
\nBut fondly overcome with Female charm.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book IX, 988\u201399)<\/p>\n

BOOK  X  OF  PARADISE  LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMan\u2019s transgression known, the Guardian Angels forsake Paradise, and return up to Heaven to approve thir vigilance, and are approv\u2019d, God declaring that the entrance of<\/em> Satan could not be by them prevented.   He sends his Son to judge the Transgressors, who descends and gives Sentence accordingly; then in pity clothes them both, and reascends.<\/em>   Sin and<\/em> Death sitting till then at the Gates of Hell, by wondrous sympathy feeling the success of<\/em> Satan in this new World, and the sin by Man there committed, resolve to sit no longer confin\u2019d in Hell, but to follow<\/em> Satan thir Sire up to the place of Man: To make the way easier from Hell to this World to and fro, they pave a broad Highway or Bridge over<\/em> Chaos, according to the Track that<\/em> Satan first made; then preparing for Earth, they meet him proud of his success returning to Hell; thir mutual gratulation.<\/em>   Satan arrives at<\/em> Pandemonium, in full assembly relates with boasting his success against Man; instead of applause is entertained with a general hiss by all his audience, transform\u2019d with himself also suddenly into Serpents, according to his doom giv\u2019n in Paradise; then deluded with a show of the forbidden Tree springing up before them, they greedily reaching to take of the Fruit, chew dust and bitter ashes.   The proceedings of<\/em> Sin and<\/em> Death; God foretells the final Victory of his Son over them, and the renewing of all things; but for the present commands his Angels to make several alterations in the Heavens and Elements.<\/em>   Adam more and more perceiving his fall\u2019n condition heavily bewails, rejects the condolement of<\/em> Eve; she persists and at length appeases him: then to evade the Curse likely to fall on thir Offspring, proposes to<\/em> Adam violent ways, which he approves not, but conceiving better hope, puts her in mind of the late Promise made them, that her Seed should be reveng\u2019d on the Serpent, and exhorts her with him to seek Peace of the offended Deity, by repentance and supplication.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book X of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

Preparatory study for The Discovery of Adam and Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1792\u201395
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and brown ink and grey ink and grey wash over pencil
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 58.4 cm
\nWidth: 41.9 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nSir John Soane\u2019s Museum, London
\n[See Tom Dunne, ed. James Barry, 1741 \u2013 1806: \u201cThe Great Historical Painter\u201d<\/em> (Cork and Kinsale, Co. Cork: Crawford Art Gallery and Gandon Editions, 2005), p. 163.]
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cI heard thee in the Garden, and of thy voice
\nAfraid, being naked, hid myself.\u2026
\nO Heav\u2019n! in evil strait this day I stand
\nBefore my Judge, either to undergo
\nMyself the total Crime, or to accuse
\nMy other self, the partner of my life;
\nWhose failing, while her Faith to me remains,
\nI should conceal, and not expose to blame
\nBy my complaint\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book X, 116\u201317, 125\u201331)<\/p>\n

The Discovery of Adam and Eve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1792\u201395
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 57 cm
\nWidth: 41.8 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\n[See also William L. Pressly, The Life and Art of James Barry<\/em> (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981), p. 168.]
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cI heard thee in the Garden, and of thy voice
\nAfraid, being naked, hid myself.\u2026
\nO Heav\u2019n! in evil strait this day I stand
\nBefore my Judge, either to undergo
\nMyself the total Crime, or to accuse
\nMy other self, the partner of my life;
\nWhose failing, while her Faith to me remains,
\nI should conceal, and not expose to blame
\nBy my complaint\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book X, 116\u201317, 125\u201331)<\/p>\n

BOOK  XII  OF  PARADISE  LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Angel<\/em> Michael continues from the Flood to relate what shall succeed; then, in the mention of<\/em> Abraham, comes by degrees to explain, who that Seed of the Woman shall be, which was promised<\/em> Adam and<\/em> Eve in the Fall; his Incarnation, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension; the state of the Church till his second Coming.<\/em>   Adam greatly satisfied and recomforted by these Relations and Promises descends the Hill with<\/em> Michael; wakens<\/em> Eve, who all this while had slept, but with gentle dreams compos\u2019d to quietness of mind and submission.<\/em>   Michael in either hand leads them out of Paradise, the fiery Sword waving behind them, and the Cherubim taking thir Stations to guard the Place.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book XII of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

The Expulsion from Paradise<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1792\u201394
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and brown ink over black chalk
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 23 cm
\nWidth: 22.5 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nThe Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Oxford
\n[See Tom Dunne, ed. James Barry, 1741 \u2013 1806: \u201cThe Great Historical Painter\u201d<\/em> (Cork and Kinsale, Co. Cork: Crawford Art Gallery and Gandon Editions, 2005), p. 163; William L. Pressly, The Life and Art of James Barry<\/em> (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981), p. 169.]
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026In either hand the hast\u2019ning Angel caught
\nOur ling\u2019ring Parents, and to th\u2019 Eastern Gate
\nLed them direct, and down the Cliff as fast
\nTo the subjected Plain; then disappear\u2019d.
\nThey looking back, all th\u2019 Eastern side beheld
\nOf Paradise, so late thir happy seat,
\nWav\u2019d over by that flaming Brand, the Gate
\nWith dreadful Faces throng\u2019d and fiery Arms:
\nSome natural tears they dropp\u2019d, but wip\u2019d them soon;
\nThe World was all before them, where to choose
\nThir place of rest, and Providence thir guide:
\nThey hand in hand with wand\u2019ring steps and slow,
\nThrough Eden<\/em> took thir solitary way.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book XII, 637\u201349)<\/p>\n

MISCELLANEOUS  MILTONIC  ILLUSTRATIONS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fall of Satan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n1777
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching, engraving and aquatint
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 83.5 cm
\nWidth: 61 cm
\nLocations<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nBritish Museum (2)<\/a>
\nBritish Museum (3)<\/a>
\nVictoria and Albert Museum<\/a>, London
\nNational Gallery of Victoria<\/a>, Melbourne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201c\u2026Tasso dresses out his \u2018gods of the abyss in hair of snakes, and immense voluminous tails[\u2019].\u2026The same might be said of Dante, of M. Angelo, and of Raffael\u2026; they have painted Satan, according to the old women\u2019s conception of him, with horns and claws. But Milton\u2019s touches of character are of a nobler and more… <\/p>\n

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