James Barry and Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi
Orpheus Instructing a Savage People
1790
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- Artist: James Barry
- Publisher: Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi
Orpheus Instructing a Savage People
1790
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 510 × 720 mm. (20 1/16 × 28 3/8 in.)
Plate: 419 × 503 mm. (16 1/2 × 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.2870.1
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. 29, 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: 'Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology & the Arts of Social Life / Sylvestres homine sacer=The Woodborn Race of Men [...] Francis's Horace. / Painted, Engraved & Publish'd by James Barry R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy May·1·1791.'; BR in plate: 'Picture 1.st'; TR Corner (graphite): 'Barry, James'.
Markings: None
