RICHARD CHAFFER'S PORCELAIN FIGURE OF JOHN MILTON, Circa 1760
Height 45.7cm, Length 24.8 cms, Depth 13.9 cms
Item No. 1414A
Dressed in 17th-century costum and wrapped in a cloak, Milton leans on a column moulded with a relief of the Archangel Gabriel expelling Adam and Eve from the Garden of...
Dressed in 17th-century costum and wrapped in a cloak, Milton leans on a column moulded with a relief of the Archangel Gabriel expelling Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, a scene taken from Milton's epic poem 'Paradise Lost' (1667). Milton's left hand holds an open scroll.
Provenance
John Hewett Collection
Detroit Institue of Arts
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