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Orpheus

Orpheus
 1791

Medium
etching and engraving
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the Society for Encouragement of Arts, 1881
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
etching and engraving
Measurements
41.8 × 49.8 cm (image) 42.0 × 50.0 cm (plate) 50.4 × 69.5 cm (sheet)
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
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the Society for Encouragement of Arts, 1881
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Religion and Mythology
Subjects (specific)
Arcadian landscapes (visual works) civilization classicism lyres nudity Orpheus (Greek character) teaching theology
Movements
Neoclassicism

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