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John Baptist Jackson, artist
English, 1701 - 1780
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, 18th century
Chiaroscuro watercolor
55.7 x 37.2 cm (image)
California State Library long loan L

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Artist Biography: Began working in London and Paris making woodcut illustrations. Went to Florence in 1731, then Venice where he published a set of chiaroscuro woodcuts after Venetian Renaissance paintings and Marco Ricci's landscapes. Returned to England 1745 to try and begin a wallpaper venture. See: Lazzaro, Claudia. Eighteenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 1981.~~Reference: LeBlanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amatuer d'estampes. Paris: 1854-59.~Kainen, Jacob. John Baptist Jackson; 18th Century Master of the Color Woodcut. Washington, D.C.: 1962~

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