This curious print by one of Ireland’s most eccentric artists shows Queen Isabella of Spain in conversation with the Dominican missionary Bartolomé de Las Casas (see a painting of him upstairs) and the explorer Ferdinand Magellan. The Queen’s reputation for being a staunch defender of the Catholic faith earned her the moniker "La Catolica." By associating her with Las Casas who advocated for the humane treatment of the Indigenous people subjugated in the Spanish Americas, Barry, who was also Catholic, distances her from the atrocities perpetrated on them by the colonizers. Barry was born in Cork, Ireland, and studied art first in Dublin before moving to London. He traveled to Rome under the patronage of fellow Irish author and philosopher Edmund Burke. This print is part of a series he made "reproducing" his famous decorative program for the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts in London (1777–83). This vignette shows a narrow panel that would have connected two larger historical panels expounding on the development of civilization and the attainment of "moral truth."