1744
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Heroic Landscape with Cart and Goatherd, with San Giorgio Maggiore in the Background is a 1744 ink by John Baptist Jackson, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This picture shows a quiet countryside scene. A man drives a cart pulled by a horse. Nearby, another man herds sheep. In the background, there’s a big church with a tall tower and a dome. Trees and rolling hills fill the rest of the view. The artist used shadows and light to make the scene feel real. The church in the back looks like Venice’s San Giorgio Maggiore. Check out how the artist used woodcut to create this effect.
John Baptist Jackson (1701–1780) was a British artist, a woodcut printmaker of the eighteenth century.
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