Illustrated catalogue of Alberto Grubicy's picture gallery in the Italian exhibition in London
An 1888 illustrated catalogue from Milan publisher Alberto Grubicy, reproducing paintings and drawings shown at the Italian exhibition in London for a British art audience. The plates are black-and-white reproductions of 19th-century Italian realist works, with artist names and titles printed in the margins. A designer might take from them the tonal range of nineteenth-century Italian halftone-era reproduction, with heavy shadows, dense crowds and interiors lit by a single source.
