The Death of Saint Peter Martyr

c. 1738

John Baptist Jackson

Artist, British, 1701 - 1780

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 56.2 x 38.2 cm (22 1/8 x 15 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.98.133

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kainen 1962, no. 16

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1962

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

Inscriptions

lower left in block: J. B. Jackson Sculp. & Excudit. Venetis 1739.; lower center in block: TITIANUS VECELLIUS CAD. INVENIT & PINXIT.

Wikidata ID

Q76346205

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