The Art journal
The Art Journal, published in London by George Virtue in 1849, was a periodical aimed at art readers and collectors, and it carried engravings after paintings and drawings of landscapes and maritime scenes. The pictures are black and white reproductions in a wide horizontal format, with soft tonal shading showing hillside paths, a steamer crossing a harbour with warships, a ruined abbey beside a river, and a meadow with cattle and haymakers that a designer could use for picturesque period landscape references.
