L'Album; giornale letterario e di belle arti
L'Album was an Italian literary and fine arts periodical printed in Rome in 1834 by the Tipografia delle Belle Arti, aimed at a general educated readership interested in letters and art. Its plates are small steel and wood engravings of architecture and landscape: a harbour fortress with a rider on the shore, a church facade with a tall campanile, a classical temple front with sculpted pediment and niches, and a walled hilltop town under a camel rider. A designer could draw on their compact, clean line work for architectural vignettes, coastal and desert scenery, and classical ornament.
