CATALOGUE 
 
 OF A SERIES OF 
 
 PICTURES 
 
 UPON THE- SUBJECT OF 
 
 HUMAN CULTURE, 
 
 Painted for the SOCIETY for the ENCOURAGEMENT of ARTS,. 
 MANUFACTURES, and COMMERCE; 
 
 By J A M E S B A R R Y, 
 
 Royal Academician, Profeflbr of Painting to the ROYAL ACADEMYj 
 and Member of the Clementini? Academy of Bologna, 
 
 'John-Street^ Adelphi^ 1784.. 
 
 IN thefe Piaures, on fubjeds ufcful and agreeable, individually GonHdered, I have further 
 endeavoured fo to conned them with each other, as in fomc meafure 'to produce a general 
 arrangement of an Epic Nature, ferving to illuftrate this one great maxim, or moral truth, 
 viz. That the obtaining of happinefs, as well individual as public, depends upon labour and 
 eiiltivation. We begin, with Man in a favage ftate, full of inconvenience and imperfedion; and 
 we trace him through feveral gradations of culture and happinefs, which, after our probationary 
 ftate in this life, are finally and completely rewarded in the next. The firft is the ilory of Or- 
 pheus ; the fecond a Harveft-home, or Thankfgiving to Ceres and Bacchus ; the third the 
 Vidors at Olympia-, the fourth, Navigation, or the Triumph of the Thames ; the fifth the 
 Didribution of Prtmiunis in the Society of Arts, &c. and the fixth^ Elyfium, or the State of 
 final- Retribution. 
 
 FIR S T ' P I G T U R E, 
 
 R P'H EU S (the founder of Grecian Theology, and the introducer of Letters and Arts) 
 finging his inllrudions to the favage people of Thrace,. 
 
 SECOND 
 
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 SECOND PICTURE. 
 
 A Grecian Harveft-home, or Tliankfgivlng to the rural deities, Ceres, Bacchus, &c. wher;- 
 thofe deities are looking down with benignity and fatisfadion on the piety, innocence, ath- 
 letic fports^ and focial feftivity which ciofe the labours of the harveft, and form the true bafis 
 of political and more improved life. 
 
 THIRD PICTURE. 
 
 r^^ROWNING the Viftors at Olympia. The Vi6lors in the feveral games pafiing in pro- 
 ceflion before the judges, where they are crow^ned with olive, in the prefence of all the 
 Grecians. They confift of a vidor in the foot race ; a foot racer, who ran armed with a hel- 
 met, fpear, and fhield ^ a pancratiafb ; the vi6lor at the Ceftus ; the horfe and the chariot of 
 four horfes. In the chariot is Hiero, of Syracufe ; the perfon who leads the chorus is Pindar^ 
 the old man on the (houlders of the boxer and pancratiaft, is Diagoras of Rhodes, who having 
 been often in his younger days celebrated for his vi6lories in thofe games, has now% in his ad» 
 vanced age, .the additional felicity of enjoying the fruit of the virtuous education he had given 
 his children, he being carried round the ftadium, on the fhoulders of his two victorious fons, 
 amidft the acclamations of the people of Greece. The fpedators for the mod part confiil of all 
 thofe celebrated characters of Greece who lived nearly about that time, and might have been 
 prefent on the occafion. At one end of the Pidure is a ftatue of Minerva, at the other a ftatue 
 of Hercules treading down Envy, exemplars of that ftrength of body and ftrength of mind which 
 were the two great objeds of the education of that mod accomplifhed and wonder-working 
 people. 
 
 FOURTH PICTURE. 
 
 pOM MERGE, or the TRIUMPH of the THAMES. The Thames, with the Mariner's 
 ^ Compafs in his hand, which has been the means of uniting the moft diftant nations, car- 
 ried along by our great navigators, Drake, Raleigh, Cabot and Cooke, is receiving the pro- 
 dudions of all quarters of the globe, fummoned together by Mercury or Commerce. Thames 
 is followed by Nereids, fome of whom are carrying feveral articles of our manufadures of 
 Manchefter, Birmingham, &:c. in tlie^iftance is a view of the Chalky Cliffs of the coaft of 
 England, Ships, &:c. 
 
 FIFTH PICTURE. 
 
 THE diftribution of Premium^s in the Society, for the Encouragement of Arts, 5rc. The 
 culture of corn having been ever efteemed one of the moft important national confiderations, 
 and at this day the Emperor of a very wife people being faid to continue the pradice of making 
 an annual procefMon at the head of his farmers, I thought, that in my Pidure, it would not 
 appear unbecoming the patriotifm and true dignity of the firft fubjed and heir apparent of our 
 monarchy, to grace, by his prefence, the diftribution of thofe prizes in the Society-, accord- 
 inaly the figure habited in the robes of the garter,, and pointing at thofe fpecimens of corn the 
 two farmcrs'^are producing to Lord Romney, the prefident, is intended for his Royal Highnefs 
 the Prince of Wales, who has gracioufly promifed to fit for it. Near Lord Romney is the Hon. 
 Mr. Marftiam, Salifbury Brereton, Efq^ Jofnua Steele, Efq-, Earl Percy, and Sir George Sa- 
 7ille, vice-prefidents. On the other fide are their Graces the Dukes of Richmond and Northum- 
 ■ ,g berland, 
 
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 berland, the Earl of Radnor, Edward Hooper, Ef)^; Keane Fitzgerald, Efq, Dr. Stephen Hales, 
 and the late Lord Radnor, vice-prefidents, and Lord Folkftone, who was the predecelTor ot 
 Lord Romney as prefident of the Society. The other perfonages are their Graces the DutchelFcs 
 of Northumberland, Rutland, and DevonHiire, Mrs. Montagu, Dr. Hurd, Bilhop o^ Worceiter, 
 Dr. Samuel Johnfon, Dr. William Hunter, Edmund Burke, William Locjc, Soame Jcniiing-s 
 James Harris, Arthur Young, and \yilliam Shipley, Efqrs. 
 
 SIXTH PICTURE. 
 
 ELYSIUM, or the STATE of FiNAL RETRIBUTION. Here I have brought together 
 thofe great and good men of all ages and nations, who were cultivators of arts and know- 
 ledge, and benefadors of mankind. Near the top and right corner of the Pidure are indiftind- 
 ly feen, as immerft and loO: in the blaze of light, Cherubims veiled with their wings in adora- 
 tion, and incenfing fomerhing not feen above them, and out of the Pidure, from whence the 
 licrht and olory proceeds, and is diffufed over the whole. The group underneath are Philofo- 
 phers, &cT Roger Bacon, Archimedes, Thales, Des Cartes, Lord Bacon, Nicolas Copernicus, 
 Galile'o, Sir Ifaac Newton and Columbus, who with two angels are looking at a folar fyilem, which 
 the infe'rior angel is unveiling : near them are Epaminondas, Socrates, Cato, the younger and 
 the elder Brutus, and Sir Thomas More. Lord Shaftefoury, John Locke, Zeno, Aridotle, Plato, 
 and William Molyneux, are looking at a group of legifiators, which conlifcs of King Alfred,^ 
 William Penn, Lycurgus, Solon, Numa, Zaleucus, Minos, Trajan, Peter the Great of 
 Ruffia, Edward the Black Prince, Henry the IVth of France, and Andrea Dona of Genoa : 
 further on are thofe wile patrons of men of genius and art, Lorenzo de Medicis, Louis XIV. 
 Alexander the Great, Charles L Colbert, Leo X. Francis I. and Lord Arundel. Before 
 this group on the range of rocks which feparate Elyfium from the Infernal Regions, are placed 
 the ano-elic guards ; in the moft advanced part is an archangel, or indrument ot Divine Judice, 
 weiahi'no- good and evil-, behind this figure are Palchal and Bifhop Butler; Hugo Grotius, Father 
 Paul, Pope Adrian, &c. are further on. In the top of the pidure, and near the center is Homer 
 fingino- to his lyre; on his right hand are Milton, Shakefpear, Spencer, Chaucer, Sappho, 
 Alceus, Offian, Menander, Moliere, Terence, Congreve, Ben Johnfon, Racine, Corneille, 
 Otway— -Brumha, Confucius, Mango Capac, &c. On the other fide ot Homer fit Fendon, 
 Virail, Horace, Taflb, Ariofto, Dante, Petrarch and Laura. In the fecond range of figures 
 over Edward the Black Prince and Lorenzo de, Medicis, are Swift, Erafmus and Cervantes, 
 Pope, Dryden, Addifon, Richardfon the author of Clariffa, Sterne, Gray, Mafon, Goldfmith, 
 Thomfon, and Henry Fielding. Hogarth, Inigo Jones, Wren, Vandyk, Rubens, Le Sueur, 
 Le Brun, Julio Romano, Domenichino, An. Carrache, Phidias, Huffey, Pouffin, the Sycio- 
 nian Maid, Callimachus, Pamphilus, Apclles, Correggio, Titian, Rafaelle, Parmeggiano, 
 M. Angelo, L. da Vinci, Ghiberti, Donatello, Mafi^accio, Brunelefchi, Albert Durer, Giotto 
 and Cimabue. The figures in Tartarus are a Warrior, a Glutton, a Spend^thrift^ a Detrador, 
 a Mifer, a vain or ambitious Man ; and three Figures repref^nting the Abufe of Power, a Del- 
 pot, a political Pope, an Abettor of the Solemn League and Covenant; and fince laft year, a 
 new figure has been introduced, reprefenting one of thofe people who wickedly lend their ears to 
 fcandat without making ufe of their eyes to difcover how far it ought to be depended upon. 
 
 1 had hopes of being entirely done with thefe pictures by this time; but the extraordinary fe- 
 verity of the lad winter having much retarded the progrefs of the work, I ihall be obliged, after 
 the exhibition, to give up two or three months in order to carry it the length l int^^nded. As to 
 the Pidure of the Society, his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales having prOmifed to fit tor 
 the principal figure, I could not give the laft hand to the other parts until that was done. 
 Whenever it may fuit his Royal Highnefs's leifure to fit, I Ihall be happy to finifii that pifture : 
 what depends upon myfelf Ihall be done ; the public will excufe me in what does net. I did 
 
 exprefs 
 
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 exprefs a wlih lafl: year to be enabled to obtain pidures of the King and Queen, for thofe 
 fpaces over the chimnies, which would give an ethical continuity to my work ; but the comple- 
 tion of this alfo does not depend upon me: I can only repeat my wifh, and hold myfelf in rea- 
 dinefs whenever fo defirablc an objecft can be efFeded. 
 
 For thofe who may have leifure and curiofity to look further and more narrowly into the 
 fubjed of thefe pidures, and the motives for undertaking them, I have drawn up an account at 
 large, to which additions have been lately made, price 4s. to be had at the Society's-room. 
 The additions may be had feparately, price Six-pence. 
 
 PROPOSALS 
 
 For Publifhing by SUBSCRIPTION 
 
 SIX ENGRAVED PRINTS, 
 
 From the above-mentioned Series of 
 
 Six Pictures upon the Subje61: of Human Culture. 
 
 CONDITIONS. 
 
 h 'T^HE Dimenfions of the two large Plates, viz. the Vi6lors at Olympia and Elyfium, to 
 be each 36 inches wide, by 15 high. The Dimenfions. of the four lateral Plates to be 
 each 18 Inches \vide, by 1 5 Inches high, 
 n. Price to Subfcribers, Six Guineas ; one Half to be paid at the Time of fubfcribing, the other 
 Half on the Delivery of the Prints. 
 
 III. The Prints to be delivered in Two Years, from Auguft next. 
 
 IV. Subfcribers v/ill have their Prints delivered to them in the fame Order their Names fliall be 
 
 received o 
 
 Y. A printed Account of this very cxtenfive Public Work, together with the Subfcribers 
 Names, will be delivered with the Prints. 
 
 SUBSCRIPTIONS are received by Mr. BARRY, and in the Society's Room. 
 
 As to the Importance of this Work, and Its Pretenfions to public Patronage, the Author of 
 It thinks that the A.rts of Self-Commendation, ufually pra61:ired in foliciting Subfcriptions, would 
 on this Occafion be unworthy of the Nation, of the Work, and of himfelf ^ and he hopeS;. 
 altogether unnecellaryo 
 
 178: 
 
 being one Half of t be - 
 ef the apouie Prints y which I promife to deliver 
 
 ^ECEIFED. 
 
 the Sum of 
 Subfcription jor 
 according to the Fropofals.,