Illustration of a scene from john milton's "paradise lost", book iv:
him [satan] thus intent ithuriel with his spear
touch'd lightly; for no falshood can endure
touch of celestial temper, but returns
of force to its own likeness: up he starts
discoverd and surpriz'd. As when a spark
lights on a heap of nitrous powder, laid
fit for the tun som magazin to store
against a rumord warr, the smuttie graine
with sudden blaze diffus'd, inflames the aire:
so started up in his own shape the fiend. Back stept those two faire angels half amaz'd
so sudden to behold the grieslie king;
yet thus, unmovd with fear, accost him soon. Object Type: painting. Date: 1779. Collection: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Johann Heinrich Füssli Satan, von Ithuriels Speer berührt
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