Cat

England

About 1760

  • Titles Cat (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium earthenware with enamel
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.280.1998
  • Work Type figure
  • Classification Sculpture

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Black jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of John Locke (1632-1704), was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.
Obverse: Five protesting princes. Reverse: Five protesting princes in the middle a "Bürgermeister" as representative of the fourteen, also protesting, cities, holding hands over an open Bible.
Aesculapius, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Bust in profile left with veil.