Crucifixion, 1741

  • John Baptist Jackson, English, 1700-1777
  • Tintoretto, Italian, 1519-1594

Chiaroscuro woodcut printed in color ink from five blocks on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within image): 22 5/8 × 16 inches (57.5 × 40.6 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund

72.528.2

On block, lower center: Illustrissimo & Nob: Viro Dno: Dno: / RICHARDO BOYLE Combi de Burlington & Cork & c. / Magnae Brittanniae & Hiberniae, Pari, Hiberniae Archi-thesaurario / Heredetario, Nobilisimi Or-dinis Periscelidis Equiti & c. / Optimae Architerae Instauratori ac Caeterarum Artium Liberalium Moecenati munificentissimo. / Singlorare hoc Opus a JACOBO ROBUSTI depictam in Schola S: ROCCI Venetiis / adservatum. J: B: Jackson Anglus qui Ligno Coelavit humillime. D. D. C. 1741...

1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Kainen, J. John Baptist Jackson: 18th Century Master of the Color Woodcut. Exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1962, no. 22.

John Baptist Jackson; after Tintoretto, Crucifixion, 1741, chiaroscuro woodcut printed in color ink from five blocks on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund, 72.528.2.