The Art journal
The Art Journal, published in London by George Virtue in 1849, was a periodical for readers interested in the fine arts, with its pages mixing engraved reproductions of paintings, decorative initials and small woodcut drawings. The four pictures show a rotated steel-engraved landscape with trees and a distant town, a second rotated landscape of a wooded valley, an ornate historiated initial letter beside running text, and a line drawing of armoured figures labelled the Antwerp Giants. A designer might take the landscape views for tonal range and the ornamental initial for its dense, scrolling border work.
