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Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")
William Blake (English, 1757–1827)
1808
Medium/Technique
Pen and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 50.5 × 38 cm (19 7/8 × 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number90.96
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Butlin 536 [2]
DescriptionParadise Lost, book IV, 492
InscriptionsSigned lower right: W Blake 1808
ProvenanceThomas Butts (1757-1845), England; Thomas Butts, Jr., sold 29 June 1853, Foster's (in 139 with No. 536 4, 9, 11, and 12) £17.66 bt. J.C. Strange; B. Quaritch, Boston offered catalogue 350 10 August 1883, May 1887, etc. (in 13842 with 32 others; see No. 84) £1,200; purchased 29 April, 1890