LÉONARD MOREL-LADEUIL (FRENCH, 1820-1888) An Elkington silver plated concave oval plaque worked in high relief with ''The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden'' (illustrating Milton's Paradise Lost)...
LÉONARD MOREL-LADEUIL (FRENCH, 1820-1888) An Elkington silver plated concave oval plaque worked in high relief with ''The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden'' (illustrating Milton's Paradise Lost) signed and dated 1866 89 x 66cm Morel-Ladeuil's Milton Shield - Paradise Lost created a sensation at the Paris exhibition of 1866, was bought by the English government and was reproduced by Elkington's to a technically superb standard