The portfolio : an artistic periodical
The Portfolio was an English art periodical published in London in 1870 by Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, with James McNeill Whistler named among its makers and its plates printed as etchings. The three pictures are mounted etchings on cream sheets: a ruined Gothic tower under a stormy sky, an interior with a fan-vaulted ceiling and a grand staircase, and a farmyard scene of a man herding pigs past timber-framed houses. A designer might take from them the tonal range of dark skies and deep shadow, and the economy of line in architecture and rural genre.
