Elsevier's geïllustreerd maandschrift
A Dutch illustrated monthly magazine, Elsevier's geïllustreerd maandschrift, published in Amsterdam in 1891 for a general literary and art readership. Its plates are reproductions of black-and-white drawings and prints: a rotated scene of figures under a lamp, a wooded landscape with a caption, a formal throne-room tableau signed by W. F. A. J. Vaarten Moret, and a team of horses in motion. A designer could take from them the late-nineteenth-century habit of framing a single image on a full page with a small printed caption in the margin.
