Editing Paradise Lost (section)

==Iconography==
{{see also|William Blake's illustrations of Paradise Lost{{!}}William Blake's illustrations of ''Paradise Lost''}}
The first illustrations to accompany the text of ''Paradise Lost'' were added to the fourth edition of 1688, with one engraving prefacing each book, of which up to eight of the twelve were by [[John Baptist Medina|Sir John Baptist Medina]], one by [[Bernard Lens&nbsp;II]], and perhaps up to four (including Books&nbsp;I and XII, perhaps the most memorable) by another hand.<ref>[http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darknessvisible/illlustration/illustration.html ''Illustrating Paradise Lost''] ({{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201090932/http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darknessvisible/illlustration/illustration.html |date=1 February 2008 }}) from Christ's College, Cambridge, has all twelve on line. See Medina's article for more on the authorship, and all the illustrations, which are also in Commons.</ref> The engraver was [[Michael Burghers]] (given as 'Burgesse' in some sources<ref name="Hunter1978">{{cite book |author=William Bridges Hunter |title=A Milton encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ozBbAAAAMAAJ |year=1978 |publisher=Bucknell University Press |isbn=978-0-8387-1837-7 |page=58}}</ref>). By 1730, the same images had been re-engraved on a smaller scale by [[Peter Fourdrinier|Paul Fourdrinier]].

Some of the most notable illustrators of ''Paradise Lost'' included [[William Blake]], [[Gustave Doré]], and [[Henry Fuseli]]. However, the epic's illustrators also include [[John Martin (painter)|John Martin]], [[Edward Francis Burney]], [[Richard Westall]], [[Francis Hayman]], and many others.

Outside of book illustrations, the epic has also inspired other visual works by well-known painters like [[Salvador Dalí]] who executed a set of ten colour [[engraving]]s in 1974.<ref>[http://www.lockportstreetgallery.com/ParadiseLost.htm Lockport Street Gallery]. Retrieved on 2013-12-13.</ref> Milton's achievement in writing ''Paradise Lost'' while blind (he dictated to helpers) inspired loosely biographical paintings by both Fuseli<ref>[http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/44739 Art Institute of Chicago]. Retrieved on 2013-12-13.</ref> and [[Eugène Delacroix]].<ref>[http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/eugene-delacroix/milton-dictated-to-his-daughters-the-paradise-lost WikiPaintings]. Retrieved on 2013-12-13.</ref>

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File:Sin-Death-and-the-Devil-Gillray.jpeg|In ''Sin, Death and the Devil'' (1792), [[James Gillray]] caricatured the political battle between [[William Pitt the Younger|Pitt]] and [[Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow|Thurlow]] as a scene from ''Paradise Lost''. Pitt is Death and Thurlow Satan, with [[Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz|Queen Charlotte]] as Sin in the middle.
File:The Shepherd’s Dream, from ‘Paradise Lost’ Henry Fuseli 1793.jpg|''The Shepherd's Dream, from "Paradise Lost"'', Henry Fuseli (1793)
File:Eve's Dream, Satan Aroused, from Paradise Lost (1824–1827) mezzotint, plate 14 × 20.2 cm. (5 12 × 7 1516 in.), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.jpg|[[John Martin (painter)|John Martin]], ''Eve's Dream, Satan Aroused'', from ''Paradise Lost'' (1824–1827). Mezzotint, plate, {{nobr|14 × 20.2 cm}}. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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