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John Atherton, I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their , 1952-1953, gouache and paper on paperboard, sheet: 22 x 18 1⁄8 in. (55.8 x 46.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.7
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Artwork Details
- Title
- I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. – Thomas Jefferson on popular sovreignty, letter to W.C. Jarvis, 1820. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
- Artist
- Date
- 1952-1953
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 22 x 18 1⁄8 in. (55.8 x 46.0 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Container Corporation of America
- Mediums Description
- gouache and paper on paperboard
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Portrait male — Jefferson, Thomas — bust
- Occupation — political — president
- Literature — Jefferson
- Object Number
- 1984.124.7