The Art journal
The Art Journal, published in London by George Virtue in 1849, was a periodical for art lovers and collectors, held by the Getty Research Institute. Its engraved plates reproduce paintings, Venetian and Italian scenes, and ornamental designs, printed on the page as black-and-white line engravings, some printed sideways. A designer could take from them the compositional grouping of crowded figures, the architectural settings, and the flowing scrolled ornament of the decorative plate.
