The Iconography of Paradise Lost


Illustrations by HENRY FUSELI

for

THE MILTON GALLERY (May 20, 1799)

 

(Click on each picture for link to larger version.)

 

1. Satan rises from the fiery flood 1.221 Damaged.

Engrav. Peltro Tomkins 1805
2. Satan calling up his legions 1.299

 

3. Satan haranguing his host 1.663 LOST

 

4. Hall of Pandemonium 1.663
5. Satan, Sin and Death 2.722

 

6. Birth of Sin 2.752 LOST

 

7. Sin pursued by Death 2.787 LOST

Engrav. Moses Haughton 1804

 

8. Lapland orgies 2.662 LOST

9. Satan's ascent from hell 2.927 LOST

10. A gryphon pursing an Arimaspian 2.943 LOST

 

11. Satan bursts from Chaos 2.1010
12. Ulysses between Scylla & Charybdis 2.1019

 

13. Adam and Eve first seen by Satan 4.325 LOST

 

14. Satan touched by Ithuriel 4.810. Sketch only.

Engrav. Richard Westall 1825

 

15. Satan sees his fate in the scales 4.985 LOST

 

16. Eve's dream 5.55. LOST.

Engrav. Haughton 1804
17. Eve's creation 8.462

 

18. Eve led to Adam 8.484 LOST

 

19. Eve at tree 9.780. Prelim. study only.

Engrav. Tomkins 1805
20. Adam resolved to share Eve's fate 10.17 LOST.

Engrav. Haughton 1806

 

21. Eve after sentence with Adam 10.224 LOST

 

22. Death, Sin, Satan on bridge. 10.293

Damaged

23. Satan on throne 10.447 LOST

 

24. Vision of the Lazar House 11.477.

Pencil drawing only.

Engrav. Moses Haughton.
25. Vision of the Deluge 11.742
26. Vision of Noah 11.861
27. Expulsion 12.637 LOST

Engrav. Ankor Smith

 

 

[There were 10 other paintings on other Milton poems and 3 paintings on Milton himself.]

 

Added to Milton Gallery for March 21, 1800 reopening:

 

41. Satan getting key to hell 2.771 LOST

42. Satan first addresses Eve 9.424 LOST

43. Adam and Eve after seduction 9.848 LOST

 

[Plus 4 paintings on other Milton poems.]



 

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