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Adam and Eve Sleeping (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")
Adam and Eve Sleeping (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")

Adam and Eve Sleeping (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")

William Blake (English, 1757–1827)
1808
Medium/TechniquePen and watercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 49.2 × 38.7 cm (19 3/8 × 15 1/4 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession number90.102
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
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; acquired 29 April 1890