The Art journal
The Art Journal, published in London by George Virtue in 1849, was a periodical for the fine arts aimed at artists, collectors and the educated public. Its engravings reproduce sculpture, history painting, circular decorative designs and garden architecture in crisp black-and-white linework, showing how Victorian print culture translated paintings and statues into reproducible images that a designer can study for composition, drapery and classical or Moorish ornament.
