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Pictures and short extracts from The Art-Journal edited by Samuel Carter Hall; I have volume XII, for 1850, and X!!! for 1851.
All decorations, and all images I have scanned, are out of copyright.
I bought this book at Berry & Peterson Booksellers in Kingston, Ontario.
Online (but with poor quality illustration scans) at Google books
Title: Art-Journal
Editor: Hall, Samuel Carter
Published by: George Virtue
City: London
Date: 1850
Total items: 19
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: The Triumph of Love]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/008-triumph-of-love-q85-126x200.jpg "[picture: The Triumph of Love]")
![[picture: Bacchus with sun-face]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/114-bowls-detail-bacchus-warm-yellow-orange-q75-207x200.jpg "[picture: Bacchus with sun-face]")
This is a version of the picture of the top of the Bacchus bowl coloured in yellow and a warm orange to make a sun face. It’s really a wine god, but would surely pass for a sun face. [more...] [$]
![[picture: St. George]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/160-george-and-the-dragon-q85-199x200.jpg "[picture: St. George]")
The engraving shows a circular coin (actually a medal), in grey to indicate bas-relief. It depicts Saint George as a naked man with a Roman military helmet. He rides a horse without saddle or reins or even stirrups for his bare feet, and wields a spear; over his left arm is a cloth. Almost at his right knee (he faces left, as does the horse) is the [...] [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Grief]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/240-grief-q75-199x200.jpg "[picture: Grief]")
![[picture: The Death of Cordelia.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/010-death-of-cordelia-q46-136x200.jpg "[picture: The Death of Cordelia.]")
