A large Derby figure of John Wilkes c.1765-70, standing and resting one hand on a square plinth, atop of which rests a scroll inscribed ~Bill of Rights~, draped in a long pink cloak, a putto to his right, holding a phrygian cap on the end of a stick and supporting a book titled ~Lock [sic] on Gov~t~, raised on a scrolled base, the putto~s right foot lacking, 31.2cm.John Wilkes (1725-1797) was an English politician and radical journalist whose criticism of the King in his magazine The North Briton earned him a warrant for his arrest for libel in 1763. Citing parliamentary privilege he was cleared of the charge and went on to become Lord Mayor of London in 1774.