James Barry and Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi
Elysium and Tartarus, or the State of Final Retribution
1791
Scroll
- Artist: James Barry
- Publisher: Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi
Elysium and Tartarus, or the State of Final Retribution
1791
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 686 × 1014 mm. (27 × 39 15/16 in.)
Plate: 415 × 932 mm. (16 5/16 × 36 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.2870.6
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. 34, ill. p. 89.
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. 425-36.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: BC in plate: 'Elysium and Tartarus or the State of FINAL RETRIBUTION--- / All now are vanish'd [...] Thompson. / Painted, Engraved & Published by James Barry R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy. May·1·1791· Laus Deo. O.M.'; BR in plate: 'This Picture & the Victors at Olympia on the opposite wall are each / 42 English feet in lenght [sic]. 8.th'.
Markings: None
