Opera Selectiora: Titiani Vecelii, Pauli Caliarii, Jacobi Robusti et Jacobi de Ponte

1745

John Baptist Jackson

Artist, British, 1701 - 1780

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with letterpress title page and 24 color chiaroscuro woodcuts on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    book: 68 × 48 × 1 cm (26 3/4 × 18 7/8 × 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.11.67

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kainen 1962, no. 16, State -32

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Associated Artworks

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The Presentation in the Temple (The Circumcision)

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The Massacre of the Innocents

John Baptist Jackson

1739

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple [right plate]

John Baptist Jackson

1742

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Consul Joseph Smith ( c.1674-1770), Venice

Associated Names

Bibliography

1962

  • Kainen, Jacob. John Baptist Jackson; 18th century master of the color woodcut. Washington, 1962.

Inscriptions

in gold-tooled letters on red leather mounted on vellum spine: [J] ACKSON'S WORK / 3 COULLERS; in graphite, on front pastedown, at upper left: 418; letterpress text on title page: TITIANI VECELII / PAULI CALIARII / JACOBI ROBUSTI / ET / JACOBI DE PONTE / OPERA SELECTIORA / A JOANNE BAPTISTA JACKSON / ANGLO / LIGNO COELATA ET COLORIBUS ADUMBRATA/ VENETIIS / Apud Jo. Baptistam Pasquali. / MDCCXLV.

Markings

bookplate of Joseph Smith, British Consul at Venice on front pastedown

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