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Edith Jaffy Kaplan, Political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom...we must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he, 1951, brush and ink and gouache on paper, sheet: 21 5⁄8 x 15 1⁄4 in. (55.0 x 38.7 cm) irregular, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.137
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom…we must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power. – Montesquieu on the Nature of Liberty. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
- Artist
- Date
- 1951
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 21 5⁄8 x 15 1⁄4 in. (55.0 x 38.7 cm) irregular
- Credit Line
- Gift of Container Corporation of America
- Mediums Description
- brush and ink and gouache on paper
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Figure — head
- Object Number
- 1984.124.137