Adam's IRISH OLD MASTERS 5th November 2024

Irish Old Masters| 5 November 2024 www.adams.ie 17 6 JAMES BARRY RA (1741-1806) Reserved Knowledge Etching and engraving, Pressly 1981.29, III/III 44.5 x 48cm (plate); 83 x 62.5cm (sheet) First published by James Barry 1795; 1808 impres - sion Inscription: In margin, across bottom: “This Groupe Exhibiting the Future Enjoyment of Reserved knowledge, where an Arch Angel is explaining a Solar System to the admiring Newton, Galileo, Copernicus & Bacon is taken from the Picture of the State of Final -/- Retribution & Com - merce by James Barry R.A. professor of Painting to the Royal Academy.”; left: “Painted. Engd. & Publd. May. I 1795 by JB.”; on book in image reverse: “OPUS MAJUS” € 1,500 - 2,000 7 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 impres - sion 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 mis - take 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 Colo- ny 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.”. € 1,500 - 2,000