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Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology and the Arts of Social Life
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Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology and the Arts of Social Life

plate dated May 1, 1791, issued 1792

Medium

Etching and engraving; second state of three

Dimensions

Plate: 16 5/16 × 19 13/16 in. (41.5 × 50.4 cm) Sheet: 16 5/8 × 19 15/16 in. (42.3 × 50.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Acquisitions Fund, 2014

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About James Barry

1741–1806United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandKingdom of Ireland

Irish painter. Comment on works: History; mythology; Religious