The children's imagination was also influenced by three prints of engravings in mezzotint by John Martin around 1820. Charlotte and Branwell made copies of the prints Belshazzar's Feast, Déluge, and Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (1816), which hung on the walls of the parsonage.[38]
Martin's fantastic architecture is reflected in Glass Town and Angria, where he appears himself among Branwell's Juvenilia[39] and under the name of Edward de Lisle, the greatest painter and portraitist of Verdopolis,[40] the capital of Glass Town. One of Sir Edward de Lisle's major works, Les Quatre Genii en Conseil, is inspired by Martin's illustration for John Milton's Paradise Lost.[41] Together with Byron, John Martin seems to have been one of the artistic influences essential to the Brontës' universe.38]
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