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Blocks, 4:
Buff, light brown, gray, reddish brown.
Inscription, bottom center (center plate):
"_Ill.u.s.trissimo & n.o.b: Viro D{no}: D{no}: / +Richardo Boyle+ Comti de Burlington & Cork &c. / Magnae Britanniae & Hiberniae Pari, Hiberniae Archi-thesaurario / Heredetario, n.o.bilisimi Ordinis Periscelidis Equiti &c. / Optimae Architecturae Instauratori ac Caeterarum Artium Liberalium / Moecenati munificentissimo. / Singolare hoc Opus a Jacobo Robusti depictam in Schola S: Rocci Venetiis / adservatum.
J: B: Jackson Anglus qui Ligno Coelavit humillime D. D. C. 1741._"
On s.h.i.+eld, bottom center (center plate):
"+Honi SoitQuiMal y Pense+"
Below s.h.i.+eld, bottom center (center plate):
"+Honor Virtutis Premium.+"
A bust portrait of a man in 18th-century dress is visible on the right knee of the woman with a child in the center background of the left sheet. It is not a likeness of Richard Boyle. Could this be a self-portrait by Jackson?
A trial proof of the key block, center sheet, is in the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art.
23.
_Miracle of St. Mark_, after Tintoretto [Le Bl. 15, N. 2]
Dimensions:
22 17 inches (left sheet), 22 17 inches (right sheet).
Blocks, 4:
Buff, light brown, dark brown, dark gray.
Inscription, lower left (left sheet):
"_Per ill.u.s.tri_ D{no} D{no} / +Eduardo Wright+, / _Armigero, / pulcrarum Artium ex-/cultori vel sollertissimo, / hoc_ Jacobi Robusti / _(communiter Tintoretto) / praeclarum opus in / suae argumentum ob-/ servantiae addicit, et / consecrat J. B. Jack?on._"
24.
_The Marriage at Cana_, after Veronese
Dimensions:
23 16 inches (left sheet), 23 16 inches (right sheet).
Blocks, 4:
Buff, dark buff, violet-brown, dark brown.
Inscription, lower left (left sheet):
"_Paulo Cagliari / Veron: Pinxit._"
Lower right (right sheet):
"Rev{mo.} D{no.} P. / _Leopoldo Capello Coen.o.bii D: Georgii / Ord: S: Benedict: / +Abbati+ / meritissimo. / J: B: Jackson_ / D. D. D."
Extreme lower right (right sheet):
"_J: B: Jackson Delin: Sculp. / & excudit Venetiis 1740._"
Jackson in the _Enquiry_ (p. 48) described this print, and the two preceding subjects, as being "in _Hugo's_ Manner with Improvements."
25.
_Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple_, after t.i.tian [Le Bl. 3, N. 18]
Dimensions:
22 15? inches (left sheet), 22 17? inches (center sheet), 22 17 inches (right sheet).
Blocks, 4:
Light grayish umber, medium brown, dark gray, dark brown.
Inscription, lower left (left sheet):
"_Opus hoc admiratione sane dignum, cunctorumq; approbatione / commendatum, ac Sacrarii Confratrum Caritatis Venetiarum / poti??imum ornamentum, a_ t.i.tiano Viccellio _Cadorensi, / Viro pingendi arte prae caeteris celeberrimo, coloribus quam / fieri potest ad naturale expressum, adumbratumq; pro viribus / exscribere studens J: B: Jackson delineavit, excudit, et ex?culpsit._ 1742."
Lower right, on streamer (right sheet):
"+Ducit Amor Patriae.+"
Lower right, in block (right sheet):
"Per Ill.u.s.tri, ac n.o.bili Viro D:{no} D:{no} / +Erasmo Philipps Barronetto+ / _Artium zelantissimo Fautori, et de re litteraria / optime merito, Tabulam hanc tenue debitae venerationis / suae argumentum, emeritissimo Patrono, et Mecaenati / commendat, et dicat / J: B: Jack?on._"
26.
_The Virgin in the Clouds and Six Saints_, after t.i.tian [Le Bl. 14, N. 17]
Dimensions:
23 14 inches.
