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Pandemonium by John Martin (1841).

Happy birthday to John Milton, 400-years-old today.

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“High on a throne of a royal state, which far / Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind” by Gustave Doré (1866).

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
The etching and engraving archive

Previously on { feuilleton }
Chiaroscuro II: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Angels 4: Fallen angels
Death from above
The apocalyptic art of Francis Danby