John Locke. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G. B. Cipriani, 1765.

  • Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785.
Date:
1765
Reference:
5984i
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The cap of liberty etched at the foot is a mark of association with Thomas Hollis, who had commissioned the print: "He had moreover procured to be engraved the beautiful head of the author by Signor Cipriani. The same artist had engraved for him the head of Locke to be prefixed before the new edition of the treaties on government published in 1763" (Blackburne, op. cit., p. 257). Hollis was a republican and promotor of civil liberties

Publication/Creation

1765

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving

Lettering

Iohn Locke. FB. Cipriani

References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1796.31

Reference

Wellcome Collection 5984i

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