The Art journal
The Art Journal, published in London by George Virtue in 1849, was a periodical for the fine arts aimed at artists, collectors and the educated public. Its engravings reproduce paintings, sculptures and monuments in fine black-and-white line, with rotated plates of genre scenes and figures. A designer might take from them the crisp hatching and tonal range of nineteenth-century steel engraving, and its staged, theatrical group compositions.
