Paradise - with the Approach of the Archangel Raphael, from John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 5, line 308 Worked almost entirely in mezzotint, this engraving exemplifies Martin’s ideal landscape—an unspoiled grove surrounded by thickets of trees and crowned with sublime mountains. Adam bids Eve to his side announcing: ". . . behold Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape Comes this way moving; seems another morn Risen on mid-noon; . . ." Not knowing the reason for the angel Raphael’s approach, the couple acknowledge his arrival, their gesture echoed by the Tree of Knowledge behind them. John Martin Haydon Bridge (Northumberland), England, 1789 - 1854, Douglas (Isle of Man) print 1996.269