JAMES BARRY RA (1741-1806) Lord Baltimore and the Group of ...

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JAMES BARRY RA (1741-1806) Lord Baltimore and the Group of Legislators Etching and engraving, Pressly 1981.24, II/II, 74.5 x 47cm (plate); 84 x 62.5cm (sheet) First published by James Barry 1793; 1808 impression Inscription: Lettered below the image In the Elysium one of the Series of Pictures on Human Culture in the Great Room of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. at the Adelphi, a mistake was committed owing to the delusion which has been so generally spread of considering Wm. Penn as the first Colonizer who established laws of Religious & Civil Liberty: this Design is therefore added to the Series in order to rectify the mistake in the groupe of Legislators by making Lycurgus looking at those exemplary laws as placed in the hands of Cacilius Cavert Baron of Baltimore who was the original establisher of thm in his Colony of Maryland many years before Wm. Penn & his Colony arrived in America to copy the worthy example. / Designed Engraved & Published by James Barry R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy. Feby. 28. 1793. L. D..