Eastern Patriarch, from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography

1803·Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto mount with aquatint border in gray on cream wove paper·Image/primary support: 23 × 31.7 cm (9 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 37.5 × 48.9 cm (14 13/16 × 19 5/16 in.)

The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund

Catalogue

Year: 1803
Medium: Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto mount with aquatint border in gray on cream wove paper
Dimensions: Image/primary support: 23 × 31.7 cm (9 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 37.5 × 48.9 cm (14 13/16 × 19 5/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: James Barry

Artist

James Barry

Painting

James Barry was an Irish painter, best remembered for his six-part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Because of his determination to create art according to his own principles rather than those of his patrons, he is also noted for being one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain, though as an artist few rated him highly until the fully comprehensive 1983 exhibition at the Tate Gallery led to a reassessment of this "notoriously belligerent personality", who emerged as one of the most important Irish artists. He was also notable as a profound influence on William Blake.

Cork, Ireland

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