The Art journal
The Art Journal is a London periodical published by George Virtue in 1849, aimed at artists, collectors and art readers, and it reproduces engraved illustrations of genre scenes, caricatures and prints from the period. The pictures here are black-and-white wood engravings: a group of boys playing a ball game in a village landscape, a caricature of a small boy beside an exaggerated old woman in a wide gown, and a figure in a windswept dress beside a gentleman holding a wig. A designer could take from them the loose, energetic line of period wood engraving and the expressive exaggeration of caricature gesture and costume.
