"Mary kneeling and holding out the Christ child to the high priest, who leans down with open arms; a group of men looking on from a higher level between pillars, one climbing down; Joseph standing behind Mary in a humble attitude to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from published state., Proof state with scratched lettering. For published state with title, painting dimensions, new statements of responsibility and new publication line engraved below image, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1861,1109.248., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill. The published state of the plate includes the text "From the original picture painted by Rembrandt, in the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole" below image; see British Museum catalogue., and Mounted on page 160 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Jackson, John Baptist, 1701-1780?, printmaker, artist, publisher
Published / Created:
[1742]
Call Number:
742.00.00.18++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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
Alternative Title:
Opus hoc admiratione sane dignum, cunctorumque ...
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] ..., and 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.
publish'd as the act directs, Septr. the 17, 1790.
Call Number:
Drawer 790.09.17.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. and State with scratched letters. See Calabi and de Vesme catalogue for description of a later state with expanded statements of responsibility, a dedication, and the imprint "Published ... Jany. 1, 1791, by B. West & J. Barney" etched below image.
"A young woman lying on her front on the ground, in loose drapery with an ointment jar beside her, reading from a large volume, propped up on right elbow, her hand to her forehead, twined in long golden curls, hanging loose over her shoulder, in a leafy leandscape."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Possibly a proof state before Bible verse added below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1837,0408.139., Publication information from imprint on British Museum impression: London, Published Jany. 1, 1792, by A.C. de Poggi, St. George's Row, Hyde Park., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text from bottom edge., and Mounted on page 167 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
"Landscape with the Finding of Moses; shepherd reclining on rocks in foreground, a group of women on the shore of a river beyond, a tower and bridge in mid-distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
From the original drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire
Description:
Title from descriptive catalog at beginning of bound volume., Text below image: From the original drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire., One of two hundred plates that were later issued in bound volumes entitled: Liber veritatis. Or, A collection of two hundred prints ... / after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain ... executed by Richard Earlom ... London : Published by the proprietor, John Boydell, [1777-1819]., Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 48., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 1st, 1774, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
"Ulysses restrains Troilius, who watches from behind hangings in Calchas' tent, as Cressida sits holding Diomedes by the hand, agreeing finally to give him the sleeve Troilius gave her as a gage of his love."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from description of possible earlier state in the British Museum. See British Museum online catalogue, registration number: 1922,0428.34., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge.
Title devised by cataloger., Artist and printmaker from list of prints at beginning of volume., Publication date based on that of the bound volume in which this print appears., Two designs on one plate, each with a coat of arms etched below., and Plates XXXIX and XL from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 2.
