COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
SAAM.1984.124.88
AMICA Library Year:
1998
Object Type:
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name:
Erni, Hans
Creator Nationality:
European; Swiss
Creator Role:
Artist
Creator Dates/Places:
born Switzerland 1909
Creator Name-CRT:
Hans Erni
Title:
"The reason, in respect of which we are rational beings, is common: if this is so, common also is thereason which commands us what to do, and what not to do; if this is so, there is a common law also
Title Type:
Title
Title:
we are members of some political community; if this is so, the world is in a manner a state...My natureis rational and social; and my city and country, so far as I am Antonius, is Rome;
Title Type:
Title
Title:
but so far as I am a man, it is the world."--Marcus Aurelius Antonius, 121-180. From the series GreatIdeas of Western Man.
Title Type:
Title
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
1950
Creation Start Date:
1950
Creation End Date:
1950
Materials and Techniques:
gouache, scratchwork and india ink on paper
Dimensions:
sheet: 18 9/16 x 14 1/8 in. (47.1 x 35.8 cm.)
AMICA Contributor:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Owner Location:
Washington, DC, USA
ID Number:
1984.124.88
Credit Line:
Gift of Container Corporation of America
Inscriptions:
center right in ink: ernibacking verso upper center in pencil: (arrow pointingupward)/GI-7/F.frame recto center left printed: "The reason, in respect of which we arerational beings, is common; if this...frame verso interior upper right in felt-tippedpen and ink: CA-7 G-6 (written sideways)
Related Image Identifier Link:
SAAM.1984.124.88.tif
