Satan and His Legions Hurling Defiance Toward the Vault of Heaven

Barry, James (Irish painter, printmaker, and lithographer, 1741-1806, active in England)

Satan and His Legions Hurling Defiance Toward the Vault of Heaven

Date

1983

Authors

Barry, James (Irish painter, printmaker, and lithographer, 1741-1806, active in England)

Publisher

The Tate Gallery

Citation

Pressly, William L., 'James Barry: Artist as Hero', London: The Tate Gallery, 1983, p 107-8, no 50

Description

This print is more precise in technique than Barry's drawn study of this scene (cgjc0792). 'Tightly controlled cross-hatching and stippling having replaced the flowing lines of the earlier work. Also, in the print Barry pays increased attention to the lower foreground corners, introducing at the left the portion of a figure and at the right a more dramatic rendering of the clouds. This scene of Satan and his legions is the earliest episode that Barry depicted from 'Paradise Lost', and because it differs in size from the three other Miltonic prints, it was presumably executed first.' (Pressly, 108)