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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.