The Art journal
The Art Journal, published in London by George Virtue in 1849, was an illustrated periodical on the fine arts aimed at artists, collectors and the educated public. Its plates range from engraved genre scenes of domestic life, with a seated woman in a kitchen beneath a peacock in an imagined garden, to mezzotint-like portraits of a bearded older man and a dark-toned head study of a young man with arrows, plus a misty river panorama of a city at dusk; a designer might take from them the tonal range of black-and-white reproduction and the atmospheric haze of the landscape.
