The Art journal
The Art Journal, published in London by George Virtue in 1849, was a periodical for an art-minded British readership, collecting engravings after paintings, architecture and decorative interiors. Its plates are mostly black-and-white reproductions: a seated bishop with a crozier and a crowned figure in a Gothic setting, a pair of women among briars, a marble-floored Venetian hall with carved columns, and a shepherdess tending sheep in a rococo landscape, offering designers models of composition, costume and ornament.
