Orpheus instructing primitive people about civilization and the gods. Etching by James Barry, 1791, after his painting.

  • Barry, James, 1741-1806.
Date:
1 May 1791
Reference:
677472i
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Description

Horace, Ars poetica, 391-407: "Silvestres homines sacer interpresque deorum / caedibus et victu foedo deterruit Orpheus, / dictus ob hoc lenire tigres rabidosque leones"

Publication/Creation

[London] : Painted engraved & publish'd by James Barry, 1 May 1791.

Physical description

1 print : etching and engraving ; platemark 42 x 51.3 cm

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Orpheus instructing a savage people in theology & the arts of social life. Silvestres homines sacer. The woodborn race of men when Orpheus tam'd From acorns and from mutual blood reclaim'd, This priest divine was fabled to assuage The tyger's fierceness and the lion's rage. Francis's Horace.Painted, engraved & published by James Barry R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy. May 1. 1791. Picture 1st

References note

Derek Hudson and Kenneth W. Luckhurst, The Royal Society of Arts, 1754-1954, London 1954, p. 24
In Elysium: prints by James Barry, Canterbury 2010, pp. 10-11

Reference

Wellcome Collection 677472i

Reproduction note

After one of the six paintings of "The progress of civilisation" painted by Barry for the Royal Society of Arts, London, from 1777 to 1783

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