The Descent of the Holy Spirit
John Baptist Jackson, English, 1701 - about 1780
after Titian, Italian, about 1488 - 1576
about 1740; published 1745
Chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper
Block: 22 5/16 × 26 1/8 in. (56.6 × 66.3 cm)
Sheet: 15 × 18 9/16 in. (38.1 × 47.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert Dance, Class of 1977
PR.997.16.3
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in block, upper left to right: Perillustri, ac Nobili Viro D:no D.no JACOBO STEWART MACKINZIE / Honorabili Magnae Britanniae Consilii Conscripto Patri, / Opus hoc, quod ex Titiani Vicellii Pictura, / exscripsit, in humillimi obsequii testi-/ monium devovebat / J.B. Jackson
Exhibition History
Eighteenth-Century Prints and Mezzotints from the Collection of Robert Dance, Class of 1977, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 7-June 22, 1997.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 17-November 20, 2005.
Provenance
London art market; Robert Dance; given to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
Le Blanc 13; Nagler 1; J. Kainen, John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut, Washington, 1962, no. 27.
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