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Museum number: 1868,0612.2157
Title: Object: Elysium and Tartarus or the State of Final Retribution; Series: Society of Arts
Description: Groups of the virtuous in Elysium, guarded by the Archangel Michael and other archangels, one holding a balance, at the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea of Tartarus full of lost souls to right; final state as reprinted by the Society of Arts c.1823. 1792 Etching
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Production date: 1792
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Dimensions: Height: 420 millimetres; Width: 925 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This print is bound with the text of the reprint by the Society of Arts of plates by Barry then in its possession. For comment on the album of which this forms part, and its dating, see 1868,0612.2150.
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Location: Not on display
Associated names: Representation of: Archangel Michael; Representation of: Thales; Representation of: René Descartes; Representation of: Archimedes; Representation of: Roger Bacon; Representation of: Christopher Columbus; Representation of: Epaminondas; Representation of: Socrates; Representation of: Lucius Junius Brutus; Representation of: Cato the Younger; Representation of: Sir Thomas More; Representation of: Marcus Junius Brutus; Representation of: Robert Boyle; Representation of: Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans; Representation of: Nicolaus Copernicus; Representation of: Galileo; Representation of: Sir Isaac Newton; Representation of: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury; Representation of: John Locke; Representation of: Zeno of Elea; Representation of: Aristotle; Representation of: Plato; Representation of: Dr William Harvey; Representation of: Hippocrates; Representation of: Numa Pompilius; Representation of: Lycurgus of Sparta; Representation of: William Penn; Representation of: Titus; Representation of: Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, King of the Anglo-Saxons; Representation of: Antoninus Pius; Representation of: Trajan; Representation of: Edward, the Black Prince; Representation of: Admiral Andrea Doria; Representation of: Peter I the Great, Tsar of Russia; Representation of: Henry IV, King of England; Representation of: Charles I, King of England; Representation of: Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquess of Seignelay; Representation of: Pope Leo X; Representation of: François I, King of France; Representation of: Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; Representation of: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre; Representation of: Origen; Representation of: Rt Rev Samuel Butler; Representation of: Blaise Pascal; Representation of: Confucius 孔夫子; Representation of: George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne; Representation of: Hugo de Groot; Representation of: Juan de Mariana; Representation of: Pope Adrian VI; Representation of: Jonathan Swift; Representation of: Desiderius Erasmus; Representation of: Miguel de Cervantes; Representation of: Laurence Sterne; Representation of: Alexander Pope; Representation of: William Mason; Representation of: Thomas Gray; Representation of: John Dryden; Representation of: Joseph Addison; Representation of: Jonathan Richardson Senior; Representation of: William Hogarth; Representation of: Oliver Goldsmith; Representation of: Henry Fielding; Representation of: Peter Paul Rubens; Representation of: Michelangelo; Representation of: Leonardo da Vinci; Representation of: Raphael; Representation of: Titian; Representation of: Antonio Correggio; Representation of: Apelles; Representation of: Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany; Representation of: Nicolas Poussin; Representation of: Ben Jonson; Representation of: Publius Terentius Afer; Representation of: Molière; Representation of: Menander; Representation of: Racine; Representation of: Pierre Corneille; Representation of: James Macpherson; Representation of: Alcaeus; Representation of: Sappho; Representation of: Horace; Representation of: Homer; Representation of: Virgil; Representation of: François Fénélon; Representation of: Torquato Tasso; Representation of: Lodovico Ariosto; Representation of: Dante; Representation of: Petrarch; Representation of: Laura de Noves; Associated with: Royal Society of Arts
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Acquisition date: 1868
Acquisition notes: See for the provenance from Haviland Burke, 1868,0612.2136
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0612.2157

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