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

Orpheus Instructing a Savage People

1790

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Orpheus Instructing a Savage People

1790

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 510 × 720 mm. (20 1/16 × 28 3/8 in.) Plate: 419 × 503 mm. (16 1/2 × 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.2870.1
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.
Pressly, William L., The Life and Art of James Barry, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981, no. 17 p. 272, ill. plate 90.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: RECTO: B in plate: 'Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology & the Arts of Social Life / Sylvestres homine sacer=The Woodborn Race of Men [...] Francis's Horace. / Painted, Engraved & Publish'd by James Barry R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy May·1·1791.'; BR in plate: 'Picture 1.st'; TR Corner (graphite): 'Barry, James'.

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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