L'Album; giornale letterario e di belle arti
L'Album, giornale letterario e di belle arti was a literary and fine arts periodical printed in Rome in 1834 by the Tipografia delle Belle Arti for an educated general readership. Its pages mix rebus puzzles, engraved views and small genre vignettes, drawn in fine black line with dense hatching and framed in plain rectangles. A designer could take from them the compact, tidy vocabulary of nineteenth-century Italian periodical engraving, with its rebus letter-play and clear monochrome cross-hatching.
