Art, Symbol & Imagination
Adam and Eve beside the Stream
The two bodies rest within a landscape of water and foliage, making the garden a lived place rather than an empty emblem. The accompanying lines describe the couple’s food and drink in Eden. Doré gives their closeness an unhurried setting, with the surrounding trees enclosing a small human scene. Read alongside the wider sequence, the plate establishes the ordinary intimacy that the intrusion into the garden will threaten. Its quiet scale places nourishment and companionship beside the poem’s far larger conflicts of angels, kingdoms and worlds.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Adam and Eve beside the Stream" [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 114. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/milton-dore-113
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Full source plate, printed verse caption and surrounding poem reviewed. Editorial title; original scan tonality retained. Over-dark plates excluded.
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Gustave Doré (design). Adam and Eve beside the Stream. Paradise Lost: Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Scan leaf 114. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/milton-dore-113