chiaroscuros

For Jackson to make these color prints was a logical step, since his work had tended toward the full chromatic range even in the chiaroscuros, which

John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen

I do not depreciate the artistic value as chiaroscuros of the various prints here noted nor underestimate the difficulty of production; but my business has been solely with the not difficult knifecutting and graver cutting of the same.

John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen

While producing wallpaper, Jackson still made efforts to attract sponsors for full editions of his earlier chiaroscuros.

John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen

Most judgments were based on the Venetian chiaroscuros and depended upon the quality of impressions, many of which are poor.

John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen

Hendrick Goltzius of Haarlem, whose first chiaroscuros date from 1588, combined both Italian and German influences with marvelously crisp drawing and cutting and sharper color combinations than were common.

John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen

Even chiaroscuros, with their few sober tones, fell into this periphery.

John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen

The chiaroscuros were made by combining an etched outline, usually by de Caylus or

John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen

In about 1726 Nicolas and Vincent Le Sueur in Paris produced some chiaroscuros, and a year later Jackson made his first example.

John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen

Italian and German chiaroscuros after pen drawings, the Italian work tended to be looser than the German, which was more careful and methodical.

John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen

The best prints were a few chiaroscuros made entirely from woodblocks by

John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Jacob Kainen