The Presentation in the Temple

1739

John Baptist Jackson

Artist, British, 1701 - 1780

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in buff, two shades of gray, and dark brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 53.4 x 38.2 cm (21 x 15 1/16 in.), cut to platemark

  • Accession

    2012.92.530

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kainen 1962, no. 17


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary Jordan Collection. [1] (Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 20, 1986; Gift to NGA, 2012.
[1] According to the donor's collection list for Jackson woodcuts, a great number came from the Mary Jordan Collection.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1962

  • Kainen, Jacob. John Baptist Jackson; 18th century master of the color woodcut. Washington, 1962: no. 17

Inscriptions

Across lower edge of image: Illustrissimo, & Erudito Viro CAROLO FREDERICK Armigero, liberalium Artium Patrono, / PAULI CAGLIARI praeclarum hoc Opus in Ligno coelatum, in grati animi argumentum humiliter D. D. D. / J:B: Jackson

Wikidata ID

Q76557111


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