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1788 The poet John Milton [Lips after Faithorne], Folio, portrait, engraving

1788 The poet John Milton [Lips after Faithorne], Folio, portrait, engraving

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Etching and Engraving by Johann Heinrich Lips (1758-1817), after anonymous, Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661), and William Faithorne (1616-1691), 

1773

Four portraits of the poet John Milton; all busts, at top left the Johnson portrait of Milton as a young boy; at top right the Onslow portrait of Milton as a young man; at bottom left a portrait after a bust, and at bottom right Milton as an old man, after Faithorne.

Johann Heinrich Lips (29 April 1758, in Kloten – 5 May 1817, in Zürich) was a Swiss copper engraver; mostly of portraits.

External dimensions 29.8 x 24.7 cm

Copper engraving and stipple, 1773.

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