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Inscribed: RECTO: BL in plate: 'In the Elysium, one of the Series of Pictures on Human Culture in the Great Room of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. at the Adelphi, a mistake was committed owing to / the delusion which has been generally spread of considering W.m Penn as the first Colonizer who established equal laws of Religious & Civil Liberty: this Design is therefore added to the / Series in order to rectify the mistake in the groupe of Legislators by making Lycurgus looking at those exemplary laws as placed in the hands of Cacilius Calvert - Baron of / Baltimore who was the original establisher of them in his Colony of Maryland many years before W.m Penn & his Colony arrived in America to copy the worthy example. / Designed Engraved & Published by James Barry. R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy. Feb.y 28·1793 [7 & 3 backwards]·L.D.'; BR Corner (graphite): 'Barry, James'.

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