Art, literature & history
The Angelic Guards
1808
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching and engraving; fourth state of four
- Dimensions
- Plate: 29 1/8 × 19 11/16 in. (74 × 50 cm) Sheet: 30 7/16 × 20 3/8 in. (77.3 × 51.8 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2016.596
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Barry. The Angelic Guards. James Barry; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2016. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Angelic Guards — James Barry. 1808.
Medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four. Dimensions: Plate: 29 1/8 × 19 11/16 in. (74 × 50 cm) Sheet: 30 7/16 × 20 3/8 in. (77.3 × 51.8 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2016.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.