The portfolio : an artistic periodical
The Portfolio is an 1870 London periodical of art criticism and reproductions, published by Seeley, Jackson and Halliday and written largely for artists and collectors of etchings. Its plates reproduce paintings, drawings and etchings, and the surrounding text discusses artists and their methods. The pictures show a soft tonal range of landscape, portrait and genre subjects, with broad shadows, dense hatching and cloud masses that a designer could study for atmospheric tonal structure.
