The Art journal
The Art Journal, published in London by George Virtue in 1849, was a periodical for an audience of artists, collectors and art readers, and its pages reproduce engravings of paintings, sculpture and designs. The four pictures are wood engravings: a fairy-tale garden scene with children and a crowned figure, a pen sketch of a winged figure cradling a child beside a prone body, a church interior with a statue on a pedestal, and a biblical scene of David instructing Solomon framed by robed figures. A designer might take from them the dense, ornamental line work of Victorian engraving and its tight arrangement of figures within arches and borders.
