Original steel engraving: the frontispiece to John Milton's Le Paradis Perdu, with the fall of the rebel angels forming a pyramid of interlocked bodies crowned by a winged demon. Engraved by Louis Jean Desire Delaistre after Jean-Jacques Flatters, published by F. Chardon in Paris.
Original steel engraving: the frontispiece to John Milton's Le Paradis Perdu, with the fall of the rebel angels forming a pyramid of interlocked bodies crowned by a winged demon. Engraved by Louis Jean Desire Delaistre after Jean-Jacques Flatters, published by F. Chardon in Paris.
Medium: Steel engraving
Artist / after: Jean-Jacques Flatters (1786-1845)
Engraver: Louis Jean Desire Delaistre (1800-1871)
Date: 1855
Source: Le Paradis Perdu by John Milton, ed. F. Chardon, Paris
Dimensions: 9.1 x 12.6 in (23 x 32 cm)
Condition: Foxing in the margins, above all at the corners; the image remains clean.