Woman Meditating

John Baptist Jackson

Artist, British, 1701 - 1780

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 13 x 24 cm (5 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.) cut to block mark

  • Accession

    2012.92.536

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kainen 1962, no. 5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 16, 1977; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1962

  • Kainen, Jacob. John Baptist Jackson; 18th century master of the color woodcut. Washington, 1962: no. 5

Inscriptions

upper left of image: F: M: Parmen / Inventor / J: B: Jackson Del. / Sculp & excudit.; across lower edge of image in block: SOCIETATI ANTIQUARIAE LONDINENSI / Humillime D. D. D. J. B. J. / Certo da cor, ch'alto destin non Scelse, ... / ... Spirto d'onore, il suo cammin raffrena

Wikidata ID

Q76557122

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