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John Baptist Jackson

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John Baptist Jackson (1701–1780) was a British artist, a woodcut printmaker of the eighteenth century. He lived and worked in Paris and Venice. Jackson was prolific, ambitious and innovative within the medium, and produced both chiaroscuro and polychrome prints, as well as wallpaper.

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Artworks (6)

Portrait of the Artist

1815 · Oil on canvas

76.3 × 63 cm (30 × 23 3/4 in.); Framed: 97.2 × 83.9 × 8.9 cm (38 1/4 × 33 × 3 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Heroic Landscape with Watering Place, Riders, and Obelisk

1744 · Woodcut

16 5/16 x 22 13/16 in. (41.5 x 58 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Melchisedech Blessing Abraham, from Opera Selectoria

1743 · Chiaroscuro woodcut in buff, light brown, dark brown, and dark gray on off-white laid paper

Image/block: 57 × 38 cm (22 1/2 × 15 in.); Sheet: 61.1 × 43 cm (24 1/16 × 16 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, from Opera Selectiora

1742 · Chiaroscuro woodcut in brown from four blocks on three sheets of ivory laid paper, pieced

56.6 × 79.1 cm (22 5/16 × 31 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Saint Mark Saving a Slave from Torture, from Opera Selectiora

1740 · Chiaroscuro woodcut printed in buff, warm gray, brown, and dark brown on off-white paper

Image/block: 56.6 × 44.5 cm (22 5/16 × 17 9/16 in.); Sheet: 62.2 × 46.4 cm (24 1/2 × 18 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Massacre of the Innocents, from Opera Selectiora

1739 · Chiaroscuro woodcut in buff, violet-gray, light brown and dark violet-brown on off-white laid paper

Image/block: 40.5 × 54.2 cm (16 × 21 3/8 in.); Sheet: 42.6 × 58.6 cm (16 13/16 × 23 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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6 published of 6 catalogued · 5 with image

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The Met
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