Adam's IRISH OLD MASTERS 5th November 2024

Irish Old Masters| 5 November 2024 19 10 JAMES BARRY RA (1741-1806) King George and Queen Charlotte Etching and engraving, Pressly 1981.23 IV/V, 42 x 51.5cm (plate); 43.5 x 53.5cm (sheet) First published by James Barry 1792 Inscription: Lettered below the image as on a plaque with production detail “Pub- lished According to Act of Parliament May 1st. 1791 by James Barry R A Proffessor [sic] of Painting to the Royal Academy”, and with the following information on the intended place of the two figures in the series: “These two Sketches were Intended to have been Painted as the two Grand Centres over the Chinmies in the Great Room of the Society for the Encourage - ment of Art &c at the Adelphi: one intend - ing to represent the King in the Year 1761 Recommending to both Houses of Parlia - ment a Bill for the Independence of the judges. The other representing the Queen at Windsor in the Superintendance of a Scene of Domestic Education. As it was the opinion of the Author that these or such Scenes were a Just tribute to the Virtue of his own Time and would happily Coincide with his Views in the other Six Pictures on Human Cultures & from one Interesting Part in the same Integral or Totality And as he was not enabled to add these to the others he is happy to have it in his power at Least to Shew the whole of what he intended by adding these two Sketches to 11 JAMES BARRY RA (1741-1806) The Thames, or the Triumph of Navigation Etching and engraving, Pressly 1981.20 VI/VI, 41.5 x 50.5cm (plate); trimmed First published by James Barry 1791, from III c.1801-2; 1808 impression Inscription: Lettered below the image with the title, and “Nor are his bless- ings to his banks confin’d But free and common as the sea or wind So that to us, nothing no place is strange While his fair bosom is the world exchange. Denham / 5th / Painted, engraved & publish’d by James Barry, R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy May 1. 1791” € 600 - 800 the Engravings of the rest of the Work which the Good Providence of God has en - abled him to execute. Had these two Subjects been introduced the Arangement would then be 1st Orpheus instructing a Savage People in Theology and the Arts of Social Life. 2d His Majesty recommending a Law for the Independence of the Administrators of Justice. 3d. A Grecian Harvest Home or the Festival of Ceres & Bacchus. 4th.The Diagorides Victors at Olympia 5th. The Thames or the Triumph of Navigation. 6th. The Queen or Domestic Education at Windsor 7th. The Society for the Encouragement of the Arts in the distribution of their Annual Premieums [sic] 8th. Elysium and Tartarus or the State of Final Retribution.”. € 600 - 1,000