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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: Ariel.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/278-ariel-nude-man-q75-120x200.jpg "[picture: Ariel.]")
![[picture: Reading the news]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/152-reading-the-news-q75-166x200.jpg "[picture: Reading the news]")
A group of working-class people in Victorian dress stand around a man who is leaning on a wooden railing reading out loud from a newspaper. There’s a woman to the man’s immediate right, smiling, wearing a shawl and dress; to her right another woman, with a hat, and two well-wrapped children one of whom is in her arms. Behind her a pale person, and to [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Decorative initial letter O, Floriated]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/001b-initial-letter-o-q65-196x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter O, Floriated]")
Decorative initial letter O, Floriated
A foliated (floriated) initial letter “O” as follows: A strong solid ltter O with a nub on the inside and ouside on each side and with an outline, and [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Ornate Rectangular Frame]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/000-title-page-details-rectangular-frame-q75-339x200.jpg "[picture: Ornate Rectangular Frame]")
![[picture: Horses eating a scanty meal]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/016-horses-eating-scanty-meal-q50-260x200.jpg "[picture: Horses eating a scanty meal]")
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