Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan, Sin, and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell [large version]
Date: 1808
Dimensions: 19 1/2 x 15 7/8 in. (49.6 x 40.3 cm.)
Medium: pen and watercolor, with touches of liquid gold [now tarnished]
Credit Line: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Object Number: 000.3
Label Text: This larger and more dramatic version of the design was probably executed as an independent composition but was later incorporated into a second series of twelve illustrations to Paradise Lost. Scales over Satan's genitals and the heads of Sin's serpents are pictured.