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Orpheus

Orpheus
1791

Medium
etching and engraving

Measurements
41.8 × 49.8 cm (image) 42.0 × 50.0 cm (plate) 50.4 × 69.5 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the Society for Encouragement of Arts, 1881

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Pressly 17

Inscription
printed in ink l.c.: Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology & the Arts of Social Life. / Sylvestres homines Sacer – The Wood born Race of Men when Orpheus tamd, / From Acorns and from mutual Blood reclaimd, / This Priest divine was fabled to aſsuage. / The Tyger’s fierceneſs, and the Lion’s Rage. Francis’s Horace. / Painted, Engraved & Publish’d by James Barry RA Profeſsor of Painting to the Royal Academy May 1. 1791.
printed in ink l.r.: Picture 1st,

Accession Number
p.183.201-1

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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