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.
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...] [$]
Decorative initial letter O, Floriated
A foliated (floriated) initial letter “O” as follows: A strong solid ltter O with a nub on the inside and ouside on each side and with an outline, and [...] [more...] [$]
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...] [$]
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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