Jeremy Bentham, 1784-1832 – Antique Wall Art
![Jeremy Bentham, 1784-1832, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ac/acc7d54830b5-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Jeremy Bentham, 1784-1832, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Jeremy Bentham, 1784-1832
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Few portraits of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham survive in print form, and this engraving by S. Freeman reproduces a painting by Worthington. The caption card gives no firm date, though the title's span of 1784 to 1832 ends in the year Bentham died. Bentham spent much of his life arguing that laws and institutions should aim at "the greatest happiness of the greatest number," the founding idea of utilitarianism. His 1791 proposal for the Panopticon, a prison designed so inmates could always be observed, is among his best-known schemes.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by S. Freeman after painting by Worthington. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I.; BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,157 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152843 |
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