L'Album; giornale letterario e di belle arti
L'Album was an Italian literary and fine arts periodical printed in Rome in 1834 by the Tipografia delle Belle Arti for a general educated readership. Its wood-engraved pictures are small and plain, with travellers on a rocky shore, a file of mounted emigrants on a mountain road, a bearded churchman's bust, and a harbour town of white houses. A designer could draw on their compact, crosshatched line work for period scenes, landscape vignettes, and portrait roundels.
