John Milton
Maker
Michael Rysbrack
(Flemish, baptized 1684, died 1770)
ClassificationsSCULPTURE
Dateca. 1737
Mediumterracotta
Dimensionsheight: 22 in. (55.9 cm.)
DescriptionThis bust depicts the English poet and writer John Milton.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Label TextFor this terracotta, Rysbrack copied the bust on his marble monument to the great 17th-century poet and writer in the so-called Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey—where memorials to Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Charles Dickens are also located. For the portrait, Rysbrack depended on a lifetime engraving of Milton made in 1670 for the frontispiece to his History of Britain.Status
On viewObject number66.11
