A Grecian Harvest Home
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Catalog: C
Code: 279
Author:
Barry James
Subject:
Mythology
Period:
18th Century
Technique:
Engraving
Size:
cm 67,7x49,5
Code: 279
Size: mm 677 x 495 mm (sheet size) mm 502 x 418 mm (plate mark)
James Barry (Cork 1741 - Londra 1806)
''A GRECIAN HARVEST HOME'
(Mythology) Original engraving representing a Grecian harvest-home. In the foreground is a figure of double terminal Sylvanus and Pan, around which young men and women dance. The distant parts of this picture, a view of a fertile cultivated country. And at the top, on the left, Ceres, Bacchus, Pan are looking down on the festivity. Behind them is a limb of the zodiac, with the signs Leo, Virgo and Libra, which mark the season of the years.
Painted, Engraved, Published by James Barry R.A. Professor of painting to the Royal Academy. May 1791
