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

by Jacob Kainen

Oman, C. C. Catalogue of Wall-Papers. London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1929, pp. 24-25, 33.

A good historical account which includes Jackson’s contributions to the rise of scenic wallpaper.

Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Mostra degli incisori Veneti del settecento. Venice, 1941, ed. 2, pp. 16, 103-104.

Catalog of the exhibition held in Venice in 1941.

Papillon, J. M. Traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois. Paris, 1766, vol. 1, pp. 323-324, 327-329, 415.

Contains personal recollections of Jackson and his career in France. The book is valuable as the first technical treatise on the woodcut, but the historical section is notoriously inaccurate and heavily weighted with Papillon’s prejudices.

Percival, MacIver. “Jackson of Battersea and his Wall Papers.” The Connoisseur, 1922, vol. 62, pp. 25-36.

Redgrave, S. Dictionary of Artists of the English School. London, 1874, p. 227.

Reichel, Anton. Die Clair-Obscur-Schnitte des XVI., XVII. und XVIII. Jahrhunderts. Zurich, Leipzig, and Vienna, 1926, p. 48.