The Art journal
The Art Journal is a London periodical of 1849 published by George Virtue, aimed at artists, collectors and the art-buying public. Its plates are steel and wood engravings reproducing paintings, sculpture, architecture and scenes from the London art world. A designer can take from them the crisp hatching and tonal modelling of nineteenth-century line engraving, with strong gestural groupings of riders and figures, arched doorways with ornate tilework, and a lively crowd scene of top-hatted visitors entering a gallery.
