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[John Milton.] Three Poets, in three distante Ages born / Greece Italy and England did adorn. / This first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, / The next in Majesty in both the last. / The force of Nature cou'd no farther go: / To make a third she joind the former two. Dryden.
[William Faithorne.] Holbrook sc.
[n.d. c.1700.]
Fine engraving. 165 x 89mm. 6½ x 3½". False margins added.
Portrait of John Milton, bust length in an oval frame, long hair, wearing bands and gown; used as frontispiece to Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. John Milton (1608-1674), the English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.
[Ref: 24430] £60.00
[n.d. c.1700.]
Fine engraving. 165 x 89mm. 6½ x 3½". False margins added.
Portrait of John Milton, bust length in an oval frame, long hair, wearing bands and gown; used as frontispiece to Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. John Milton (1608-1674), the English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.
[Ref: 24430] £60.00