John Milton as a boy, one of a set of four pictures (cc00441-4) from Giovanni Battista Cipriani's original etching, "Portrait of John Milton as a Child", was commissioned by Thomas Hollis in 1760. Giovanni Cipriani's design was based upon a painting by Cornelius Johnson in Hollis's collection. The verse along the lower margin is from John Milton's "Paradise Regained", Book One: see also original portrait cc00019.
