Art Funded
Collection of eighteen woodcuts
© Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
John Baptist Jackson (1700 - 1777)
Hunterian Art Gallery
1739 - 1743
Eighteen chiaroscuro woodcuts after J.Bassano, F.Bassano, L. Bassano, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, & Rembrandt. Published by G.B.Pasquale, Venice. John Baptist Jackson was Britain's first outstanding wood block artist, best known for his revival of the chiaroscuro woodcut and for his adaptation of the colour woodcut to wallpaper printing.
- Medium: woodcut
- Dimensions: 72 x 53 cm
- Art Fund Grant: £2000 ( Total: £8,000)
- ArtFunded in: 1992
- Vendor: Mrs C E Lloyd-Jacob
Provenance
Sir Roger Newdigate; by descent to Lord Daventry; The Newdigate Settlement sale, Christie's 1/7/87, lot 321; Mrs C.E.Lloyd-Jacob.
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