JOHN BAPTIST JACKSON (AFTER TITIAN) The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple.
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed in dark brown, light brown and tan on two sheets of cream laid paper (center and right panels of the three panel composition), 1742. 560x870 mm; 22¼x34¼ inches (overall). A good, dark impression of this large, scarce woodcut, with strong colors and the relief from the wood blocks distinct on the verso.
Titian (circa 1488/90-1576) painted The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, 1534-38, the work on which Jackson (1701-1780) based this large color woodcut, for the fraternity based in the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carita, Venice, a building later incorporated into the Galleria dell'Accademia, where the work now hangs.
