[The presentation of the Virgin in the temple] [graphic]

Description

Title: [The presentation of the Virgin in the temple] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Opus hoc admiratione sane dignum, cunctorumque ...
Creator: Jackson, John Baptist, 1701-1780?, printmaker, artist, publisher
Contributor: Titian, approximately 1488-1576, associated name.
Published / Created: [1742]
Publication Place: Venice
Publisher: J.B. Jackson
Abstract: "Left plate of a triptych; a procession of people, left to right, with two pairs of men in the foreground, a bearded man to left, giving a coin to a woman who carries a child, another man standing behind him, under the arches of a large building, a woman on the right, looking eagerly ahead; mountains and a pyramidical obelisk in the background."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title supplied by cataloger based on title of original painting by Titian.
Place of publication based on known location of J.B. Jackson.
Six lines of Latin text in lower left corner of image: Opus hoc admiratione sane dignum, cunctorumq[ue] ...
One of a series of twenty-four chiaroscuro woodcuts after seventeen paintings in Venice: Opera selectiora. For description of series, see British Museum online cat. registration number: 1918,0713.28.
Provenance: Erik N. Ellert; July 1965;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 57 x 40 cm
Language: Latin

Access: Public
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