1739
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Entombment is a 1739 ink by John Baptist Jackson, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This scene shows a group of people carrying a draped body wrapped in cloth. The setting is a dim forest with tall trees, their branches twisting above. In the distance, a small town sits on a hill under a cloudy sky. The artist used deep browns and shadows to create a dramatic, almost three-dimensional effect. The figures look tense, their faces shadowed as they work together. Try looking up woodcut to see how this printing technique works.
John Baptist Jackson (1701–1780) was a British artist, a woodcut printmaker of the eighteenth century.
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