John Ogborne and Richard Westall- Paradise Lost Death Leaving the Gates of Hell The Poetical Works of John Milton

Paradise Lost: Death Leaving the Gates of Hell for the World of Man (The Poetical Works of John Milton)

John Ogborne's original stipple engraving, "Paradise Lost: Death Leaving the Gates of Hell for the World of Man", was published in 1795 by John Boydell for his famous "The Poetical Works of John Milton" set. Richard Westall designed all the engravings, including this original example which was used as the frontis piece for Book Ten of "Paradise Lost". This remarkable engraving illustrates a horrific black form, Death sits at the gates of Hell, a hand on each post. In front of him is the imploring figure that is half-woman and half-serpent, the representation of sin at the the threshold of Hell. This original engraving contains the engraver's name, "J. Ogborne Sculpt.", the designer's name, "R. Westall, R. A. delt." title, "Paradise Lost" No. "B.10.L. 272." which indicates (Book 10, Line 272 of Milton's Paradise Lost) and publisher's details "Published June 4, 1797 by J. & J. Boydell & G. Nicol, Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall; & No. 90, Cheapside." printed below the image. "Paradise Lost: Death Leaving the Gates of Hell for the World of Man" is a striking, original example of the late 18th century art created by the British artists, John Ogborne & Richard Westall.

Paradise Lost Death Leaving the Gates of Hell Original Stipple Engraving by John Ogborne designed by Richard Westall for John Boydell's set The Poetical Works of John Milton

Paradise Lost: Death Leaving the Gates of Hell for the World of Man (The Poetical Works of John Milton)

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John Ogborne (Chelmsford, 1755 - London, 1837)
#	Image	Title & Engraver	Medium	Date	Engraver	Designer
01.-		As You Like It: Act Two, Scene Seven, The Seven Ages of Man - The Second Age by John Ogborne designed by Robert Smirke. Shakspeare Gallery	Original Stipple Engraving (Open Letter Proof Impression)	1801	John Ogborne	Robert Smirke
02.-		As You Like It: Act Two, Scene Seven, The Seven Ages of Man - The Fourth Age by John Ogborne designed by Robert Smirke. Shakspeare Gallery	Original Stipple Engraving (Open Letter Proof Impression)	1801	John Ogborne	Robert Smirke
03.-		Charles Pratt, Earl Camden (One of England's most prominent 18th century jurists) by John Ogborne designed by George Dance.	Original Stipple Engraving (First Edition Impression)	1794	John Ogborne	George Dance
04.-		Comus: Sabrina Releasing the Lady from her Spell by John Ogborne designed by Richard Westall. The Poetical Works of John Milton	Original Stipple Engraving (First Edition Impression)	1797	John Ogborne	Richard Westall
05.-		First part of King Henry the 6th. Act II, Scene IV. (London. The Temple Garden. Earl of Somerset, Suffolk and Warwick; Richard Plantagenet, Vernon, etc.) by John Ogborne designed by Josiah Boydell. Shakspeare Gallery	Original Stipple Engraving (Proof Before Title Impression)	1790	John Ogborne	Josiah Boydell
06.-		Paradise Lost: Death Leaving the Gates of Hell for the World of Man by John Ogborne designed by Richard Westall.The Poetical Works of John Milton	Original Stipple Engraving (First Edition Impression)	1795	John Ogborne	Richard Westall

View other original engravings published by John & Josiah Boydell for "The Poetical Works of John Milton".

The Poetical Works of John Milton
Designed by Richard Westall
#	Image	Title & Engraver	Engraver Info	Medium	Date	-
01.-		Comus: Sabrina Releasing the Lady from her Spell by John Ogborne	John Ogborne (Chelmsford, 1755 - London, 1837)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1797	Available
02.-	-	Comus: The Forest Scene by Benjamin Smith	Benjamin Smith (London, 1754 - 1833)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1797	--
03.-	-	Comus: The Temptation Scene by Benjamin Smith	Benjamin Smith (London, 1754 - 1833) & Benjamin Duterrau (1767 - 1851)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1797	--
04.-	-	Elegia Quinta by Thomas Kirk	Thomas Kirk (London, Died, 1797)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1797	--
05.-		Hymn to the Nativity by Jean Pierre Simon	Jean Pierre Simon, 'John Peter Simon' (London, 1750 - Paris, c. 1810)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1797	Available
06.-	-	Il Penseroso by John Ogborne	John Ogborne (Chelmsford, 1755 - London, 1837)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1797	--
07.-		On the Death of a Fair Infant by Benjamin Smith	Benjamin Smith (London, 1754 - 1833)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1794	Available
08.-	-	L'Allegro by Thomas Kirk	Thomas Kirk (London, Died, 1797)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1797	--
09.-		Lycidas (A poem by John Milton), by Benjamin Smith	Benjamin Smith (London, 1754 - 1833)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1797	Available
10.-	-	Milton and his two Daughters by Benjamin Smith	Benjamin Smith (London, 1754 - 1833)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1797	--
11.-		Paradise Lost: Adam and Eve Banished from Paradise by Benjamin Smith	Benjamin Smith (London, 1754 - 1833)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1795	Available
12.-		Paradise Lost: Adam Awakening Eve by Richard Earlom	Richard Earlom (London, 1743 - 1822)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1794	Sold
13.-		Paradise Lost: Death Leaving the Gates of Hell for the World of Man by John Ogborne	John Ogborne (Chelmsford, 1755 - London, 1837)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1795	Available
14.-		Paradise Lost: Eve in the Garden of Eden by Richard Earlom	Richard Earlom (London, 1743 - 1822)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1795	Sold
15.-		Paradise Lost: Messiah Routs Satan and his Angels by Luigi Schiavonetti	Luigi Schiavonetti (Bassano, Italy, 1765 - London, 1810)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1794	Sold
16.-		Paradise Lost: Satan Alarmed by Jean Pierre Simon	Jean Pierre Simon, 'John Peter Simon' (London, 1750 - Paris, c. 1810)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1794	Available
17.-	-	Paradise Lost: Satan at the Gates of Hell by Jean Pierre Simon	Jean Pierre Simon, 'John Peter Simon' (London, 1750 - Paris, c. 1810)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1794	--
18.-	-	Paradise Lost: Satan Awakening His Legions by Jean Pierre Simon	Jean Pierre Simon, 'John Peter Simon' (London, 1750 - Paris, c. 1810)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1794	--
19.-		Paradise Lost: The Angel Raphael Relates The Story of Creation to Adam and Eve by Thomas Kirk	Thomas Kirk (London, Died, 1797)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1795	Sold
20.-		Paradise Lost: The Temptation of Eve by Thomas Kirk	Thomas Kirk (London, Died, 1797)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1795	Sold
21.-		Paradise Regained: Christ and Satan Dispute the Value of Earthly Glory. by William Satchwell Leney	William Satchwell Leney (London, 1769 - Longue Pointe (Montreal), Canada, 1831)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1795	Available
22.-		Paradise Regained: Christ in the Wilderness by Moses Haughton Junior	Moses Haughton, Junior (Wednesbury, Staffordshire, c. 1772 - London, 1848)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1795	Available
23.-		Paradise Regained: The Fall of Satan by Benjamin Smith	Benjamin Smith (London, 1754 - 1833)	Original Stipple Engraving 'First Edition Impression	1795	Available

Portraits of John Milton (England, 1608 - 1674)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Artist Info	Medium	Publisher	Date	-
01.-		John Milton, Age 21 by William Nelson Gardiner	William Nelson Gardiner (Dublin, 1766 - London, 1814)	Original Stipple Engraving and Etching	John and Josiah Boydell & George Nicol, London	1794	Sold
02.-		John Milton, Age 62 by William Nelson Gardiner	William Nelson Gardiner (Dublin, 1766 - London, 1814)	Original Stipple Engraving and Etching	John and Josiah Boydell & George Nicol, London	1794
03.-		Portrait of John Milton as a Child by Giovanni Battista Cipriani	Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Florence, Italy, 1727 - London (Hammersmith), 1785)	Original Etching	Thomas Hollis (J. & J. Boydell & G. Nicol Edition, 1794)	1760
04.-		Portrait of John Milton as a Young Man by Giovanni Battista Cipriani	Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Florence, Italy, 1727 - London (Hammersmith), 1785)	Original Etching	Thomas Hollis (J. & J. Boydell & G. Nicol Edition, 1794)	1760
05.-		Portrait of John Milton in Old Age by Giovanni Battista Cipriani	Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Florence, Italy, 1727 - London (Hammersmith), 1785)	Original Etching	Thomas Hollis (J. & J. Boydell & G. Nicol Edition, 1794)	1760
06.-		Portion of a Shield (John Milton dictating his epic poem, "Paradise Lost", to his daughter.) by John Alfred Vinter	John Alfred Vinter (London, 1828 - 1905)	Original Lithograph	Day & Son, London	1852

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Title:	Paradise Lost: Death Leaving the Gates of Hell for the World of Man
Engraver:	Ogborne, John (Chelmsford, 1755 - London, 1837)
Designer:	Westall, Richard (Hertford, 1765 - London, 1836)
Date:	1795
Medium:	Original Stipple Engraving
Publisher	J. & J. Boydell & G. Nicol, Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall; & No. 90, Cheapside
Source:	The Poetical Works of John Milton
Note:	John Ogborne: Some of the finest stipple engravings of the late eighteenth century come from the hand of John Ogborne. A student of Bartolozzi, he worked mainly after the designs of Richard Westall, Angelica Kauffmann, Robert Smirke and Thomas Stothard. Ogborne was frequently commissioned by John Boydell for his 'Shakespeare' and 'Milton' engravings. During the early nineteenth century, John Ogborne turned successfully to topographical views in the medium of aquatint engraving. In some of his engraved work he was assisted by his wife, Mary Ogborne.
	Richard Westall: After attending the Royal Academy schools in London (1785), Richard Westall devoted himself to history and landscape subjects. He was an early practitioner of the watercolour medium and many publishers of illustrated books soon sought his designs for publication of illustrated editions of Gray, Moore, Crabbe and other poets of the day. During the 1790's, he was commissioned by John Boydell to work upon both the "Milton" and "Shakespeare" sets. Richard Westall was elected an Associate of the prestigious Royal Academy in 1792 and a full Academician in 1794. In the 1820's, he was appointed the drawing master to then Princess Victoria. Perhaps because of their subject matter, the Richard Westall designs for the John Milton etchings bear similarities to the fantastic art of his two great British contemporaries, Henry Fuseli and William Blake. Milton's rich poetry, his vision of spirituality and of the forces of good and evil, provided a valuable framework for all three artists. Milton's lines pertaining to this original engraving are provided below.
	John Boydell is easily one of England’s most remarkable 18th century personalities. Born in poverty, he began his career as an at best mediocre engraver of small book plates. At this time England was at a very low ebb as a serious centre for the visual arts (particularly engraving) and Boydell sought to eradicate this situation by beginning a second career as a publisher of fine prints. Modest initial experiments in the 1760,s led to a rapid expansion of his business and during the 1770's, he published his striking series of mezzotint engravings, "Liber Veritas", engraved by Richard Earlom after the drawings of Claude Lorrain. This ambitious undertaking put England back on the printmaking map and was a huge financial success for John Boydell.
	Boydell had now established London as a major centre for the arts and this once poor and struggling engraver/publisher was acknowledged for his efforts by being elected no less than Lord Mayor of London, in 1791. The same year marked the beginning of Boydell’s most grandiose undertaking. His new publishing establishment in Pall Mall, the 'Shakspeare Gallery', began by commissioning the most esteemed painters and engravers in the country to create and design large and expensive engravings based upon the plays and life of William Shakespeare. By this time as well John Boydell’s nephew, Josiah (1752-1817), had joined the firm.
	This monumental venture continued until John Boydell's death thirteen years later. By that time, The Shakespeare Gallery had created and published one hundred and seventy engravings on a grand scale. Alas, the expenses for this vast project had been so large that England's foremost publisher of art ended his life the way he began, dying penniless. Note: During that period, William Shakespeare's name was also spelt, 'Shakspeare', thus the spelling for Boydell's (Shakespeare Gallery) appears printed as 'Shakspeare Gallery'.
	At this time England’s other great literary giant, John Milton, was honoured by Boydell. "The Poetical Works of John Milton" was published in three parts in 1794, 1795 and 1797. Sparing no expense, Boydell commissioned George Romney to design a portrait plate and Richard Westall to design images illustrating each part of "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained" as well as the more famous individual poems. The engravers included Richard Earlom, Thomas Kirk, J. P. Simon, Benjamin Smith, M. Haughton, Dutterau and John Ogborne.
	Unlike the 'Shakespeare' engravings, the 'Milton' prints were constructed almost solely in the stipple technique. Stippling reached its golden age in late eighteenth century England. The technique was promoted and taught by Francesco Bartolozzi (Florence, Italy, 1727 - Lisbon, Portugal, 1815). Many of the above mentioned engravers were among his finest students. Briefly, stippling was a tonal method where the image was created not with solid lines but with a multitude of dots or flicks. Under a master’s hand, stippling magnificently captured tonal values by contrasting areas of light and shade. Unfortunately it was most laborious and quickly became extinct with advances in aquatint engraving in the early nineteenth century. Yet to this day some of the most subtle and sensual engravings in the history of British art belong to the stipple engravers of the late eighteenth century.
	As one can easily see, these stipple engravings for Boydell’s "The Poetical Works of John Milton" are masterpieces of their kind. The tonal values from light to dark one views in "Paradise Lost: Death Leaving the Gates of Hell for the World of Man", rival the best eighteenth century mezzotints.
	A Note on "Paradise Lost: Such masterworks as "Paradise Lost", "Samson Agonistes" and "Comus" place John Milton (British, 1608 - 1674) as England's greatest poet. "Paradise Lost" was first published in 1667. It is Milton's great epic poem, composed in twelve books. This remarkable engraving illustrates the Tenth Book. The expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden has taken place and the guardian Angels have returned to Heaven. Satan remains on Earth after ruining Paradise. In this scene, the horrific black form, Death sits at the gates of Hell, a hand on each post. In front of him is the imploring figure that is half-woman and half-serpent, the representation of sin at the the threshold of Hell. Sin and Death now sit at the gates of Hell and view the success of Satan in this new world. At Sin’s suggestion, they resolve to follow Satan, their sire, up to the place of man. Death answers, “Go whither fate, and inclination strong, Leads thee; I shall not lag behind, nor err The way, thou leading; such a scent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable, and taste The savour of Death, from all things there that live: Nor shall I, to the work thou enterprise st, Be wanting, but afford thee equal aid. So saying, with delight, he snuff’d the smell Of mortal change on earth.” This remarkable engraving illustrates lines 272 & 280 which appear above in italics. A horrific black form, Death sits at the gates of Hell, a hand on each post. In front of him is the imploring figure that is half-woman and half-serpent. This is the threshold of Hell.
Size:	12 X 8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Printed upon thick Whatman wove paper and with large, full margins as published by John and Josiah Boydell in Pall Mall in 1795. The engraver's name, "J. Ogborne Sculpt.", the designer's name, "R. Westall, R. A. delt." title, "Paradise Lost" No. "B.10.L. 272." and publisher's details "Published June 4, 1797 by J. & J. Boydell & G. Nicol, Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall; & No. 90, Cheapside." are printed below the image. Containing some water staining in the upper right corner (at least 3 inches removed from the actual engraving) else a rich, early impression and in excellent condition throughout. "Paradise Lost: Death Leaving the Gates of Hell for the World of Man" represents a superb, original example of late eighteenth century British art.
Subject:	John Ogborne, Richard Westall, John Boydell, "Paradise Lost: Death Leaving the Gates of Hell for the World of Man", original stipple engraving, John Milton, Henry Fuseli and William Blake, Sin and Death, threshold of Hell, late eighteenth century British art.
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