In 1783 appeared the first number of his
Views of Seats in Ireland, a series of twenty-four plates from drawings by
William Ashford,
John James Barralet,
Francis Wheatley, and others; this work, which made Milton's reputation, was completed in 1793. From then on he seems to have relied on commissions from publishers. , 1803 engraving. His other major plate was
The Deluge, engraved for
Thomas Macklin's Bible from a picture by
Philip James de Loutherbourg. His work occurs also in
John Boydell's,
George Kearsley's, and
George Steevens's editions of Shakespeare, and
William Young Ottley's
Stafford Gallery 1818. In 1801 appeared
Views in Egypt, a series of coloured
aquatints; the subtitle clarifies that it was from original drawings in owned by
Sir Robert Ainslie, taken during his embassy to
Constantinople by
Luigi Mayer, engraved by and under Milton. For ''
Rees's Cyclopædia'' he engraved well over 200 plates, mostly on natural history topics. ==References==