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James Barry
Orpheus 1791
etching and engraving
41.8 × 49.8 cm (image) 42.0 × 50.0 cm (plate) 50.4 × 69.5 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the Society for Encouragement of Arts, 1881
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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
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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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Religion and Mythology
Subjects (specific)
Arcadian landscapes (visual works) civilization classicism lyres nudity Orpheus (Greek character) teaching theology
Movements
Neoclassicism