Art, Symbol & Imagination
Satan Ascends the Savage Hill
A small winged figure climbs a dark wooded height while water, plains and cloud spread far beyond it. Trees and rock divide the steep foreground from the open distance. The caption identifies Satan's slow, pensive approach in Book IV. Doré makes the climb visually arduous through the height of the slope and the dense surface beneath the traveller. The expansive landscape is already available to sight, but not yet to easy movement. That separation between seeing a destination and reaching it gives the solitary ascent its particular tension.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Satan Ascends the Savage Hill" [editorial title]. In Paradise Lost: Illustrated by Gustave Doré, John Milton; illustrated by Gustave Doré; edited by Henry C. Walsh. Undated John W. Lovell Company edition; exact publication year unverified, undated edition, John W. Lovell Company. Source scan leaf 112. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/milton-dore-111
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Original source design and caption inspected; composition retained with scan margins trimmed. No reconstructed or recoloured details.
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Gustave Doré (design). Satan Ascends the Savage Hill. Paradise Lost: Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Scan leaf 112. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/milton-dore-111