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Art-Journal (page 1/3)

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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.

Some sample images

[picture: The Triumph of Love]

The Triumph of Love

The Triumph of Love [more...] [$]

[picture: A Reminiscence]

A Reminiscence

A path through the trees, strewn with the fallen masonry of gateposts with their terracotta balls; mature trees on either side. In the backgrouns a person wearing a ha and using a cane (or [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Birth of the Rose]

Birth of the Rose

Engraved by T. W. Knight from the statue by B. Jennings. [more...] [$]

[picture: Ariel.]

Ariel.

This engraving depicts a sculpture of Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It was shown in the eighty-second exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1851, where it was exhibit number 1335; the Art Journal says: [more...] [$]

[picture: Dedication page With Cartouche]

Dedication page With Cartouche

The dedication page comes after the title page and imprint page. Here it uses a giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems to enclose the text. [more...] [$]


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