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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/13591

Title:	The Act of Union Between Great Britain and Ireland
Author:	Barry, James (Irish painter, printmaker, and lithographer, 1741-1806, active in England)
Issue Date:	1983
Publisher:	The Tate Gallery
Citation:	William L. Pressly, 'James Barry: Artist as Hero', London: The Tate Gallery, 1983, p 146, no 89
Description:	'This is the latest version to have survived of Barry's preparatory studies for the Act of Union. It is similar to another drawing also in the British Museum (cgjc0774). In both works Barry gave the recording angel on the left a large wing, but in the version exhibited here he pasted a contoured piece of paper over the wing and sketched in the background on top if it.' (Pressly, 146)
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2262/13591
Role:	artist
Culture:	Irish
Dimensions/Extent:	69.6 cm x 49.7 cm
Period:	18th century
Work:	drawing
Appears in Collections:	TRIARC - Crookshank-Glin Collection (Digital Image Collection)

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