L'Album; giornale letterario e di belle arti
L'Album was a literary and fine arts periodical printed in Rome in 1834 by the Tipografia delle Belle Arti for an Italian educated readership interested in letters and art. Its engravings are small, hand-cut black-and-white prints: a crowded court procession with armoured figures on horseback, a hillside view of a walled town with church spires, a street scene of a figure with an axe, and a bust of a pope in a tall mitre. A designer could draw on their compact framing and dense hatching for period illustration or editorial vignettes.
