The Massacre of the Innocents, from Opera Selectiora
Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund
Catalogue
- Year
- 1739
- Medium
- Chiaroscuro woodcut in buff, violet-gray, light brown and dark violet-brown on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- John Baptist Jackson
Artist
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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- John Baptist Jackson
- Year
- 1739
- Medium
- Chiaroscuro woodcut in buff, violet-gray, light brown and dark violet-brown on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1739-522163
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified