Il Paradiso perduto

Illustrated by: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian (Venetian), 1682–1754)
Illustrated by: Antonio Balestra (Italian, 1666–1740)
Illustrated by: Bernard Picart (French, 1673–1733)
Illustrated by: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian (Venetian), 1696–1770)
Illustrated by: Santo Piatti (Italian, about 1687–1747)
Illustrated by: Giovanni Battista Crosato (Italian, 1697–1758)
Illustrated by: Gianbettino Cignaroli (Italian, 1706–1770)
Illustrated by: Matteo Brida (Italian, 18th century)
Illustrated by: Nicolò Billy the Younger (Italian, 18th century)
Illustrated by: Vittorio Maria Bigari (Italian, 1692–1776)
Engraved by: Francesco Zucchi (Italian, 1692–1764)
Author: John Milton (English, 1608–1674)
Printer: Giannalberto Tumerman (Italian, 18th century)

1742

Place of Publication: Verona, Italy

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 27 engravings

Dimensions Overall: 39.3 x 29 x 3 cm (15 1/2 x 11 7/16 x 1 3/16 in.)

Credit Line William A. Sargent Fund

Accession Number60.1161

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsIllustrated books

Verona: Giannalberto Tumerman, 1742

Catalogue Raisonné Brunet III, 1731; Lanckoronska 160; Morazzoni, Libro illustrato veneziano del settecento, p. 243.

Description(Paris [i.e., Verona]: Giannalberto Tumerman, 1742) Folio; 125 leaves; contemporary gilt-stamped brown calf, gray-brown pastepaper boards

Full-page frontispiece after Piazzetta; head- and tailpieces illustrating Milton's poem, after Piazzetta (Bk. 4), Tiepolo (Bk. 10), and others

ProvenanceWilliam H. Schab, New York, from whom purchased by MFA, October 13, 1960.