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Description: | CRE JACKSON, John Baptist; (English; c. 1700-1777) PUB PASQUALINI, Giovanni Battista; (Italian; c. 1600-after 1630) DES TINTORETTO, Jacopo Robusti, called Il; (Italian; 1518/19-1594) NFA and NACF assisted purchase. From 4 blocks. LABEL Jackson was Britain's first outstanding woodblock artist. Here he has used four blocks of different shades of brown to achieve depth and an impression of the colours of the original paintings. The cylinder press has embossed and wrinkled the paper, creating a shadow effect. The whole set took Jackson four and a half years to complete. These sheets are from a complete folio of 24 untrimmed prints, reproducing 17 masterpieces of Venetian painting. It was purchased directly from the artist in Venice by Sir Roger Newdigate while he was on the Grand Tour, for £4 and 1 shilling.
This is after the painting by Tintoretto of 1548, now in the Accademia in Venice, showing St Mark descending from heaven to rescue a slave from being beaten. The composition is so large, that the two sheets are intended to be trimmed and pasted together by the purchaser. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCULPTURE : HERMS : TURBANS : ARCHITECTURE : ROPE : NICHE : HAMMER : NACF : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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