Adam Reproving Eve: Martin 1827

Title: Adam Reproving Eve Author: John Martin Date: 1827 Medium: Mezzotint Condition: Excellent Inches: 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 [Image] Centimeters: 26.67 x 19.05 [Image] Product ID: 4266 From The Paradise Lost of John Milton (pub. 1846), Book 10, line 863 After Adam and Eve partake of the forbidden fruit, Adam turns on Eve, blaming her for their situation. Berating her for having tempted him as the serpent tempted her, he expresses his disdain. "Whom thus afflicted when sad Eve beheld,Desolate where she sate, approaching nigh,Soft words to his fierce passion she assay'd:But her with stern regard he thus repell'd.Out of my sight, thou Serpent, that name bestBefits thee with him leagu'd, thy self as falseAnd hateful; nothing wants, but that thy shape,Like his, and colour Serpentine may shewThy inward fraud, to warn all Creatures from theeHenceforth; least that too heav'nly form, pretendedTo hellish falshood, snare them. But for theeI had persisted happie, had not thy prideAnd wan