The award of the annual prizes of the Royal Society of Arts. Etching by James Barry, 1791, after his painting.

[London] : J[ames] B[arry], 1 May 1791.

1 print : etching and engraving ; platemark 42 x 50.7 cm

The Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c in the distribution of their annual premiums painted, engraved & published by James Barry R.A. Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy. May .1. 1791

Derek Hudson and Kenneth W. Luckhurst, The Royal Society of Arts, 1754-1954, London 1954, p. 25

In Elysium: prints by James Barry, Canterbury 2010, pp. 11, 23

Wellcome Collection 677429i

After one of the six paintings of "The progress of civilisation" painted by Barry for the Royal Society of Arts, London, from 1777 to 1783 However there are differences between Barry's painting and this print. In the painting, Somerset House appears to the left of St Paul's: in the print it is replaced by a temple.