Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (Left Panel), 1742

Not on View

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

image: 56 x 39 cm (22 1/16 x 15 3/8 in.)

sheet: 59.5 x 43 cm (23 7/16 x 16 15/16 in.)

Kainen 1962, no. 25

2012.92.531

John Baptist Jackson (artist) British, 1701 - 1780

Titian (artist after) Venetian, 1488/1490 - 1576

lower left in image: Opus hoc admiratione sane dignum... / ...J: B: Jackson delineavit, excudit, et exsculpsit. 1742.

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.

Jordan, Mary
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge

1962: Kainen, Jacob. John Baptist Jackson; 18th century master of the color woodcut. Washington, 1962: no. 25