Christ on the Mount of Olives

1743

John Baptist Jackson

Artist, British, 1701 - 1780

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks, printed in buff, brown, gray, and dark brown on laid paper [proof impression without final gray]?

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    block: 56 x 38.5 cm (22 1/16 x 15 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 60.2 cm (23 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.518

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kainen 1962, no. 30


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary Jordan Collection. [1] (The Book Press, Ltd., Williamsburg, VA?); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 12, 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. 30

Inscriptions

lower center in blockIllmae. atq; Excell.mae D.nae. D:nae / Paulinae Contarenae / NOB: VENETAE, aviti sanguinis ingenti splendore clarae, sed Virtutum nobilitate longe clariori, piissimum / hoc Christianae Fidei monumentum, exiguum obsequentissimae servitutis suae signum, quod ex pictura / Jaboi de Ponte delineavit, et ex sculpsit, generossimae Patronae, et Auspici dedicabat J: B: Jackson

Wikidata ID

Q76557079


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