Eve

Eve Listening to the Voice of Adam, John Hedges Baily, 1842, V and A Museum

Eve Listening to the Voice of Adam, John Hedges Baily, 1842 (V&A Museum).  ‘This sculpture illustrates a scene from John Milton’s poem “Paradise Lost”.  Turning to Adam to describe “a shape within the watery gleam”, Eve is told it is her own reflection.  Critics admired her parted lips and raised eyes “as if every sense were occupied in the work of listening”.’

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