James Barry
Elysium and Tartarus, or the State of Final Retribution
1791
Scroll
James Barry
Elysium and Tartarus, or the State of Final Retribution
1791
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 470 x 951 mm. (18 1/2 x 37 7/16 in.)
Plate: 420 x 925 mm. (16 9/16 x 36 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
The John Dorsey and Robert W. Armacost Acquisitions Endowment
Object Number
2014.86
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.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2014; Susan Schulman Printseller, NY
Pressly, William L., The Life and Art of James Barry, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981, no. 22 p. 274.
Inscribed: RECTO: BC in plate: 'Elysium and Tartarus or the State of FINAL RETRIBUTION--- / All now are vanish'd [...] Thompson. / Painted, Engraved & Published by James Barry R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy. May·1·1791· Laus Deo. O.M.'; BR in plate: 'This Picture & the Victors at Olympia on the opposite wall are each / 42 English feet in lenght [sic]. 8.th'.
Markings: None
