The Art journal
The Art Journal is a London periodical published by George Virtue in 1849 for an audience of art lovers and collectors, reproducing paintings and engravings of its day. Its plates here are monochrome reproductions of landscapes and portraits, the landscapes showing rocky valleys, massed trees, distant mountains and small figures in open country, with the portraits showing seated and turned figures in dark and light dress. A designer might draw on their tonal range, atmospheric depth and compositional framing.
