The Art journal
The Art Journal is a London periodical of 1849 published by George Virtue for a readership interested in fine art and its reproduction. Its pages carry reproductions of paintings, architectural views and portraits, printed in halftone and line. The four pictures here range from a sketched Italian street with a tower and doorway, to a formal profile portrait of a woman in a patterned gown, a shadowed archway view of a town lane, and a dark three-quarter portrait of a woman in a fur-trimmed wrap. A designer might take from them the contrast between loose tonal sketching and finished formal portraiture, and how strong dark masses frame a figure.
