The Martyrdom of Saint Peter

John Baptist Jackson was a British painter and printmaker. In Venice, he received the support of British consul Joseph Smith to produce a suite of large chiaroscuro woodcuts reproducing oil paintings by Venetian Renaissance artists Titian, Jacopo Tinteretto, Paulo Veronese, and Jacobo Bassano. Giovanni Battista Pasquali subsequently published this suite of prints in 1745 as a bound volume, now commonly known as Jackson’s “Venetian Set.” “The Martrydom of Saint Peter” reproduces a Titian painting that was destroyed by fire in 1867 at the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice.