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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.
Cartouche with Sculpture, Art and Architecture
This is the main engraving from the title page of the 1850 Art-Journal, without the writing. [more...] [$]
Dedication page With Cartouche
The dedication page comes after the title page and imprint page. Here it uses a giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems to enclose the text. [more...] [$]
Oval or Elliptical Victorian Frame
This giant elliptical (oval) frame or cartouche is taken from the dedication page of the magazine. The giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems enclosed the text. [more...] [$]
Decorative initial letter O, Floriated
A foliated (floriated) initial letter “O” as follows: A strong solid ltter O with a nub on the inside and ouside on each side and with an outline, and [...] [more...] [$]
A plate, intended for fruit, presents the mask of a little Bacchus ornamented by a crown of vine-leaves, which form a basket ready to receive the bounteous gifts of tht god by whom every tree and every product of he garden was protected. The idea is a pleasing one, that from underneath a mass of heaped-up fruits, gradually appears, uncovered, the smiling [...] [...] according to the fashion of former days. In order to render it available for a table, a stand has been added in an appropriate style composed of the twining roots and branches of trees upon which the plate rests, like a sun-flower on its stem, clasped round with ivy and embellished with shells and flowers. (p. 114) [more...] [$]
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