James Barry and Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi
The Glorious Sextumvirate
1794
Scroll
- Artist: James Barry
- Publisher: Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi
The Glorious Sextumvirate
1794
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 1014 × 687 mm. (39 15/16 × 27 1/16 in.)
Plate: 749 × 476 mm. (29 1/2 × 18 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.2870.11
Last print in a group of 3 including 'Reserved Knowledge' and 'Queen Isabella'. 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. 38, ill. p. 92.
Barry, James, 'A Letter to the Dilettanti Society,' in The Works of James Barry, ed. by Dr. Edward Fryer, London, 1809, v. 2, p. 576-80. Monthly Magazine, XVI (1 Sept. 1803), p. 106.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: B in plate: 'This Colloquial Groupe of the Celebrated Sextumvirate, Epaminondas, Socrates, J. Brutus, Cato, S.r Tho.s More & M. Brutus [...] James Barry, R.A. Proffessor of Painting to the Royal Academy. Painted, Engraved & Published May·1·1795 by J.B.'.
Markings: None
