The Virgin and Child in the Clouds with Six Saints

1742

John Baptist Jackson

Artist, British, 1701 - 1780

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks in buff and black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 59 x 37.5 cm (23 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.), trimmed to block mark

  • Accession

    2012.92.534

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kainen 1962, no. 26

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary Jordan Collection. [1] (Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 20, 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. 26

Inscriptions

Across top of image: Illmo atq; Excell.mo D.no D.no PHILIPPO FARSETTI Nob. Ven. / Tabellam hanc a Titiano Vicellio jam depictam in / gratissimi animi, cultusq; perpetui testimonium / Mecaenati, ac Sospiti munificentissimo / humiliat, et consecrat J. B. Jackson; in image: TITIANUS FACIEBAT; across bottom of image: J. B. Jackson Del: sculp: &c. 1742

Wikidata ID

Q76557118

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