The Art journal
The Art Journal is a London periodical published by George Virtue in 1849 for an audience of art readers and collectors, drawing on the Getty Research Institute's holdings. The four plates vary widely: a Japanese-style warrior scene in ink, a sketched boat on water, a cat on a stone step, and a drawing of a furnished room with framed paintings, suggesting a range of reproduced line and tonal art a designer could draw on for period composition and subject variety.
