The Art journal
The Art Journal, published in London by George Virtue in 1849, was a periodical on the fine arts aimed at artists, collectors and the English public, drawing on the Getty Research Institute's copy. Its plates are black and white steel and wood engravings: a rotated view of a city waterfront with spires and figures, a pastoral scene of riders on a country road, a decorative cartouche framing an octagonal panel with two seated female figures, and a domed interior with an ornate arch. A designer might take from them the scrolled ornament, classical cartouche framing, and dense engraved line shading of mid-nineteenth-century decorative design.
