Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (Center Panel)

1742

John Baptist Jackson

Artist, British, 1701 - 1780

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 56 x 45.5 cm (22 1/16 x 17 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 59.5 x 48.5 cm (23 7/16 x 19 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.665

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kainen 1962, no. 25 (center panel)


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary Jordan Collection. [1] (Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased 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. 25

Wikidata ID

Q76557627


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