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JAMES BARRY RA (1741-1806) Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology and the Arts of Social Life Etching and engraving, Pressly 1981.17 III/III, 49.5 x 53.5cm (plate); 49 x 62.5cm (sheet) First published by James Barry 1792; 1808 impression Inscription: in plate, within the image, lower left, in reverse: “Jas Barry RA”; below image, in plate: Painted, Engraved & Publish’d by James Barry R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy May 1, 1791 Inscribed below image in plate: “Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology & Arts of Social Life / Sylvestres homine sacer –The Wood-born Race of Men when Orpheus tamd, / 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
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