The Art journal
The Art Journal, published in London by George Virtue in 1849, was a periodical for art and the trade that reproduced paintings, sculpture and monuments as engravings for its readers. The four plates here show a standing draped female figure among flowers, a tall carved monument or altarpiece, a row of sculpted figures in a frieze, and a rocky landscape under a double rainbow; they offer a designer examples of engraved tonal rendering, with dense hatching for drapery and stone and open white space for sky.
