| dc.contributor.author | Barry, James (Irish painter, printmaker, and lithographer, 1741-1806, active in England) | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Tate Gallery | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-02-02T10:29:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-02-02T10:29:09Z | |
| dc.date.created | c. 1788-92 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1983 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | William L. Pressly, 'James Barry: Artist as Hero', London: The Tate Gallery, 1983, p 103-4, no. 48. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/13555 | |
| dc.description | In 1786 Barry was requested by Alderman John Boydell to submit work for the gallery which he had recently established, with the intention of displaying works of British artists based on Shakespearian themes. Barry submitted two works to Boydell: 'King Lear Weeping over the Body of Cordelia (cgjc0768) and this one. The subject is from Shakespeare's play 'Cymbeline' and this trunk scene (Act II, Scene II) provided Barry with an opportunity to illustrate Burke's ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful. (from Irish Paintings in the NGI, Vol 1, 76) A nocturnal scene is a departure for Barry and he obviously felt some uneasiness about this for, while he was at work on it, he complained about it to the Duke of Richmond. Despite the artist's reservations, the painting, rooted as it is in some of his deepest obsessions, possesses a gripping power. It is a Gothic nightmare depicting how the reputation of someone pure and blameless can be besmirched by poisonous slander which only found an opening in an act of generosity. (Pressly, 104) For a detailed oil sketch by Barry of this painting see image cgjc0760. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 332591 bytes | |
| dc.format.medium | oil paint (pigmented coating) | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | image/jpeg | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | The Tate Gallery | en |
| dc.subject | Imogen | en |
| dc.subject | Iachimo | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Art, Irish | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Painting, Irish | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Cymbeline | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Characters Men | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Characters Daughters | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Sleep in art | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Deception Drama. | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797. Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful. | en |
| dc.title | Iachimo emerging from the Chest in Imogen's Chamber | en |
| dc.type | Image | en |
| dc.contributor.role | artist | en |
| dc.coverage.culture | Irish | en |
| dc.format.extentdimensions | 286 cm x 361 cm | |
| dc.format.support | canvas | en |
| dc.subject.period | 18th century | |
| dc.type.work | painting | en |
