The Art journal
The Art Journal is a London periodical of art reproductions and criticism, published by George Virtue and dated 1849 in the catalogue record, though these plates look later and show photographic halftone printing for an art-trade and collecting readership. The four pictures show a rotated painting of a reclining nude in a landscape, a misty field with a figure and tall trees, a seated woman at a table with teacups, and a marble-trimmed interior with a dome, fireplace and wall panels. A designer could take from them the tonal range of monochrome halftone reproduction, the classical interior decoration, and the soft pictorial landscape composition.
