The Art journal
The Art Journal, published in London by George Virtue in 1849, was an illustrated periodical on the fine arts aimed at artists, collectors and the art-reading public. Its plates are steel and wood engravings after paintings and drawings, several printed sideways here; the scenes are dramatic, with crowded banquets, candlelit interiors and costumed figures, offering a designer period staging, tableau composition and engraved tonal shading to study.
