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James Barry and Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi

Crowning the Victors at Olympia

1791

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Crowning the Victors at Olympia

1791

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 687 × 1009 mm. (27 1/16 × 39 3/4 in.) Image: 417 × 933 mm. (16 7/16 × 36 3/4 in.) Plate: 417 × 933 mm. (16 7/16 × 36 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.2870.3
After Barry's mural series 'The Progress of Human Culture' for the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce in Adelphi, 1777-1784; now in the Royal Society of Art, London.
Barry, James, 'A Letter to the Society of Arts,' in The Works of James Barry, ed. by Dr. Edward Fryer, London, 1809, v. 2, p. 422-424.
Pressly, William L., The Life and Art of James Barry, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981, no. 19 p. 273.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: RECTO: BC in plate: 'The Diagorides Victors at Olympia- / the famous Diagoras [...] Painted, engraved & published by Jam. Barry R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy·May·1·1791[...]'; BR in plate: '-4.th-'.

Markings: None

Artist

James Barry

1740–1805

Irish, 1741-1806
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Publisher

Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi

2000–2000

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