James Barry : the artist as hero / William L. Pressly
1983, 1st edition. London : Tate Gallery. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #412310
ISBN: 0905005090
Physical description; 167 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; "Published by order of the Trustees 1983 for the exhibition of 9 February--20 March 1983"--Title page verso. Contents; Early historical paintings 1767-1776 -- Early historical drawings -- Early portraits 1767-1776 -- Prints and propaganda 1776-1778 -- The progress of human culture -- Prints after the paintings -- Related portraits -- The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery -- Illustrations to Paradise Lost and the Bible, the 1790s -- Barry as printmaker -- Etchings and aquatints -- Late prints -- The copperplates -- Nude figure studies -- Late historical compositions -- The suffering hero: late self-portraits -- Books and manuscripts: writings on art. Subjects; Barry, James 1741-1806 ; Exhibitions. Barry, James (Irish painter, printmaker, and lithographer, 1741-1806, active in England) ; Exhibitions. Barry, James 1741-1806. Tate Gallery (London, England) ; Exhibitions. History in art ; Exhibitions. History in art. History in art ; Exhibitions. Painters, Irish 18th century England. History painting. Art and mythology. Irish paintings Barry, James Catalogues.
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