Christ on the Mount of Olives

1743

John Baptist Jackson

Artist, British, 1701 - 1780

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in buff, medium brown, grey and dark brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 55.5 × 38 cm (21 7/8 × 14 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 60.3 × 42.1 cm (23 3/4 × 16 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.520

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kainen 1962, no. 30, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 20, 1986; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1962

  • Kainen, Jacob. John Baptist Jackson; 18th century master of the color woodcut. Washington, 1962: no. 30, only

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom: Ill: mae atq; Excell: mae D: nae D: nae / Paulinae Contarenae / NOB: VENETAE, aviti sanguinis ingenti splendore clarae, sed Virtutum nebilitate longe clariori, piissimum / hoc Christianae Fidei monumentum, exiguum obseqentissimae servitutis suae signum, quod ex pictura / Jacobi de Ponte delineavit, exsculpsit, generosissimae Patronae, et Auspici dedicabat J: B: Jackson.

Wikidata ID

Q76557088

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