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Pictures and short extracts from The Art-Journal edited by Samuel Carter Hall; I have volume XII, for 1850.
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: 18
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Cartouche with Sculpture, Art and Architecture]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/000-title-page-detail-decorated-cartouche-q56-138x200.jpg "[picture: Cartouche with Sculpture, Art and Architecture]")
Cartouche with Sculpture, Art and Architecture
This is the main engraving from the title page of the 1850 Art-Journal, without the writing. [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: 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: Passages From The Poets -- A Garden.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/279-a-garden-q67-153x200.jpg "[picture: Passages From The Poets -- A Garden.]")
Passages From The Poets – A Garden.
The picture shows a gentleman and two ladies in probably eighteenth century dress, in the grounds of some large house or castle; they have met along a broad path leading to stone steps, and in the background are stone balustrades and a fountain. But the predominant feature of the picture, without question, is the cover of huge mature trees, the light [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Bacchus with sun-face]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/wm/big/114-bowls-detail-bacchus-warm-yellow-orange-q75-207x200.jpg "[picture: Bacchus with sun-face]")
This is a version of the picture of the top of the Bacchus bowl coloured in yellow and a warm orange to make a sun face. It’s really a wine god, but would surely pass for a sun face. [more...] [$]
Pictures and short extracts from The Art-Journal edited by Samuel Carter Hall; I have volume XII, for 1850.
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
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