Magazine of Art Illustrated (page 1/4)

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Taufers

Taufers is first mentioned in the year 1080, but not until the yeat 1149 does the family seem to have risen to any importance; but from then, until it does out in 1312, it was one [...] [more...] [$]

The Novel

A young lady languishes on a couch, one hand supporting her head, the other holding on her lap an open book She wears a dark full-length dress and black boots and sits on a couch with an oversized arm, with a pot of tea nearby on an [...] [more...] [$]

The Engraver

The act of engraving to make a print is personified here by a woman in classical dress, barefoot, holding in her outstretched arms a print that she has presumably made, of a woman, perhaps the personification of Painting from the previous page. Behind her is a printing press, and dnagling from her left hand are the tools of the engraver. [...] [more...] [$]

The Casuals

The oil painting on which this engraving was based was exhibted under the title, Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward, at the Royal Academy in 1874; it was made to illustrate a scene from Dickens: [more...] [$]

The Gleaners

(By Fred Morgan)

“Mr. Fred. Morgan is as sunny as usual in his “Gleaners” (p. 119)

Gleaning means going into fields after the harvest and finding left-overs missed by the harvesters. When I was a child, in England, [more...] [$]