The Finding of Moses

1741

John Baptist Jackson

Artist, British, 1701 - 1780

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut in buff, light brown, light violet gray, and dark gray

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 55.8 × 38.5 cm (21 15/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 66.9 × 46.5 cm (26 5/16 × 18 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.11.67.h

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kainen 1962, no. 28

Associated Artworks

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The Presentation in the Temple (The Circumcision)

John Baptist Jackson

1739

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

Bibliography

1962

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

Wikidata ID

Q65079668


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