The portfolio : an artistic periodical
The Portfolio was an artistic periodical published in London by Seeley, Jackson and Halliday in 1870, with its plates printed as etchings for an audience of art readers and collectors. Its pages mix Renaissance-style engraved portraits, a skull and vanitas group, a figure with a hourglass, and an etched city street view. A designer might take from them the crisp hatched line, dense tonal shading, and the way small framed vignettes are arranged on a sheet.
