John Baptist Jackson Part 24

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

ANONYMOUS. _An Enquiry into the Origins of Printing in Europe, by a Lover of Art._ London, 1752.

A rewrite of Jackson's ma.n.u.script journal, with some sections quoted verbatim. The artist's career from about 1725 to 1752 is described.

The most important biographical source and a rare book.

AUDIN, M. _Essai sur les graveurs de bois en France au dix-huitieme siecle._ Paris, 1925, pp. 99-102.

Contains a section listing many books ill.u.s.trated by Jackson in Paris, mostly in later editions.

BAVEREL, P. _Notices sur les graveurs_, Besancon, 1807, vol. 1, pp.

341-342.

BeNeZIT, E. _Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, & graveurs._ Paris, 1924 (1st ed. 1913), vol. 2, p. 693.

BEWICK, THOMAS. _Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself_, 1822-1828. New York, 1925 (1st ed., 1862), pp. 213-214.

Mentions meeting Jackson in advanced age, about 1777. The book contains much personal reminiscence and observation on life but little concrete detail for the student.

BIGMORE, E. C. and WYMAN, C. W. H. _A Bibliography of Printing._ London, 1880-1886, vol. 1, pp. 201, 365.

The most extensive annotated listing of books relating to printing.

Has a description of Jackson's _Essay_.

BRULLIOT, F. _Dictionnaire des monogrammes._ Munich, 1832-1834, vol. 2, Nos. 1288, 1352, 1535.

BRYAN, M. _Dictionary of Painters and Engravers._ London and New York, 1904 (1st ed. 1816), vol. 3, p. 99.

The most comprehensive biographical dictionary of artists in the English language.

BURCH, R. M. _Colour Printing and Colour Printers._ London, 1910, pp.

72-77.

The most comprehensive general survey, but with more than occasional inaccuracies. There is a lack of sensitivity in art matters. These comments apply also to the section on Jackson.

CHATTO, W., and JACKSON, J. _A Treatise on Wood-Engraving._ London, 1861 (1st. ed. 1839), pp. 453-457.

The cla.s.sic work on the subject; scholarly, objective, and voluminously ill.u.s.trated. Has the fullest early account of Jackson and is the basis for most later studies of the artist.

CUST, L. "John Baptist Jackson," _Dictionary of National Biography._ New York and London, 1885-1900, vol. 29, p. 100.

DE BONI, F. _Biografia degli artisti._ Venice, 1840, p. 499.

DONNELL, EDNA. "The Van Rensselaer Wall Paper and J. B. Jackson-- A Study in Disa.s.sociation." _Metropolitan Museum Studies_, 1932, vol. 4, pp. 77-108.

The most scholarly study of Jackson's wallpaper career. Shows, by an examination of styles, that Jackson could not have made the wallpapers indiscriminately attributed to him.

DUPLESSIS, G. Histoire de la gravure. Paris, 1880, pp. 314-315.

ENTWISLE, E. A. _The Book of Wallpaper._ London, 1954, pp. 65-67, 76.

Contains new information on wallpaper manufacturers in London during the 18th century, some of it bearing on Jackson.

FRANKAU, J. _Eighteenth-Century Colour-Prints._ London, 1907, pp. 42-46.

Has an appreciative section on Jackson, highly romanticized.

FRIEDLaNDER, M. J. _Der Holzschnitt: Handbucher der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin._ Berlin and Leipzig, 1926 (1st ed. 1917), pp. 224-226.

FUESSLI, J. C. _Raisonirendes Verzeichniss der vornehmsten Kupferstecher._ Zurich, 1771, pp. 353-354.

FURST, H. _The Modern Woodcut._ New York, 1924, pp. 88, 99.

A fine general survey, although judgments are occasionally dogmatic.

GALLO, R. _L'Incisioni nel '700 a Venezia e a Ba.s.sano._ Venice, 1941, pp. 22-23.

A solid study containing some new material on the artists of the period.