James Barry and Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi
A Grecian Harvest Home
1791
Scroll
- Artist: James Barry
- Publisher: Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi
A Grecian Harvest Home
1791
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 508 × 688 mm. (20 × 27 1/16 in.)
Plate: 418 × 505 mm. (16 7/16 × 19 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.2870.2
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.
Pressly, William L., The Tate Gallery, London, 'James Barry: The Artist as Hero,' February 9-March 20, 1983, no. 30, ill. p. 88.
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.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: B in plate: 'A Grecian Harvest Home / vos, o clarissima - Ye Deities who Fields and Plains Protect [...] Dryden's Virgil. / Painted Engraved & Publish'd by Jam. Barry R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy May·1·1791 [7 reversed]'; BR in plate: '3'.d'.
Markings: None
