With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rungĪ hideous peal yet, when they list, would creep, About her middle roundĪ cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, He passes on his journey to Hell-gates, finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them, Gustave Doré (1832–1883), Before the Gates There Sat on Either Side a Formidable Shape (Book 2, 648-9) (1866), engraving for ‘Paradise Lost’, John Milton, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, further details not known. Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death Gustave Doré (1832–1883), Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras Dire (Book 2, 628) (1866), engraving for ‘Paradise Lost’, John Milton, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, further details not known. The council thus ended, the rest betake them several ways, and to several employments, as their inclinations lead them, to entertain the time till Satan return. The consultation begun, Satan debates whether another battle be to be hazarded for the recovery of Heaven some advise it, others dissuade: a third proposal is preferred, mentioned before by 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 their doubt who shall be sent on this difficult search Satan their chief undertakes alone the voyage, is honoured and applauded. Gustave Doré (1832–1883), High on a Throne of Royal State, Which Far Outshone the Wealth of Ormus and of Ind (Book 2, 1-2) (1866), engraving for ‘Paradise Lost’, John Milton, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, further details not known. John Martin (1789–1854), Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council (1824), engraving printed on paper, dimensions not known, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Image by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, via Wikimedia Commons. John Martin (1789-1854), Pandemonium (1823-27), oil on canvas, dimensions not known, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Pandemonium the palace of Satan rises, suddenly built out of the Deep the infernal Peers there sit in council. To find out the truth of this prophecy, and what to determine on, he refers to a full council. and A.S.W.In the first book: To these Satan directs his speech, comforts them with hopes 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 for that Angels were long before this visible creation, was the opinion of many ancient Fathers.
White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Reproduction of an etching by Charles Courtry, (French, 1846–1897) Copied after a painting by Mihály von Munkácsy, (Hungarian, 1844–1900)
Milton Dictating "Paradise Lost" Phototypic reproduction of an etching by Courtry from the painting by Munkácsy., (The Original Painting in the Lenox Gallery, New York)
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