Magazine of Art Illustrated (page 2/4)

Front Cover

The front cover of the book is green and gold. [$]

Frontispiece: Don’t Cry

A curly-haired boy squats with one arm around his younger sister, whose face is full of sadness. The boy is trying to cofort thegirl. They are dressed as poor people from Italy, so that perhaps they have just lost [...] [more...] [$]

The Casuals

The oil painting on which this engraving was based was exhibted under the title, Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward, at the Royal Academy in 1874; it was made to illustrate a scene from Dickens: [more...] [$]

Clovelly, From the Hobby Walk

The viewer is looking down a steeply-descending path through a seaside village towards the sea. There are slate rooves and some laundry over a fence. [more...] [$]

The Novel

A young lady languishes on a couch, one hand supporting her head, the other holding on her lap an open book She wears a dark full-length dress and black boots and sits on a couch with an oversized arm, with a pot of tea nearby on an [...] [more...] [$]

An Egyptian Priest and Scribe

Scribes in ancient egypt seem to have been valued and inportant; a scribe was a high-ranking job, unlike in the Levant in the first century, when they were often slaves. [more...] [$]

The Gleaners

(By Fred Morgan)

“Mr. Fred. Morgan is as sunny as usual in his “Gleaners” (p. 119)

Gleaning means going into fields after the harvest and finding left-overs missed by the harvesters. When I was a child, in England, [more...] [$]

A Railway Cutting

The engraving shows maybe 20 or more men working on making a railway cutting. In the background men are digging away at the ground; at centre, they lod the dirt onto a railway truck (US: a railroad waggon); a horse waits nearby to drag the full cart away. In the foreground is a man presumably raking the gravel between the rails, and another just [...] [more...] [$]

The Condition of the Turkey

Perhaps Thanksgiving or Christmas is approaching, because the farm-boy is looking at the turkeys with interest and anticipation. [more...] [$]

Initial letter “t” as flower in a pot

An artistic and unusual decorative initial “t” from 1878: the letter T is on a flowering plant growing out of a square flower-pot decorated with a Chinese theme. [more...] [$]

The Painter

Painting, or the painter, is here represented as a barefoot and bare-breasted woman holding a canvas and a brush. She has a cap with wings, an allusion to mythology. [...] [more...] [$]