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![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-359x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Images from The Magazine of Art. Illustrated (c. 1878), published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris and New York.
This was a monthly periodical, or magazine, that ran from 1878 to 1948; later volumes included colour plates. The volume that i have is listed as Volume 3 (Volume III) at archive.org.
I have marked these images as being in the public domain, but I am actually not certain if this is correct in all cases. You have been warned!
Title: Magazine of Art Illustrated
Published by: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Date: 1878
Total items: 29
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: St. George and the Dragon]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/wm/big/337-St.-George-and-the-Dragon-q75-158x200.jpg "[picture: St. George and the Dragon]")
![[picture: Grotesque Head [detail]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/wm/big/257-Grotesque-Head-portion-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Grotesque Head [detail]]")
![[picture: Decorative initial E with angel, woman and cherub]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/wm/big/259-initial-letter-e-with-cherubs-q75-200x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial E with angel, woman and cherub]")
Decorative initial E with angel, woman and cherub
This decorative initial featuers a miniature picture of a naked angel (we see his bottom!) listening patiently to a naked women on his left, with a little winged cherub boy on the right. There are also flowers and fronds. The capital letter was used as a drop cap in the book, 12.5 lines—generally considered bad practice, as a drpo cap should align with [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: Mirror-Frame (A Wood Carving by Panciera Besarel, of Venice)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/wm/big/264-Mirror-Frame-Panciera-Besarel-q75-152x200.jpg "[picture: Mirror-Frame (A Wood Carving by Panciera Besarel, of Venice)]")
Mirror-Frame (A Wood Carving by Panciera Besarel, of Venice)
[A] mirror-frame by a Venetian wood-carver named Panciera Besarel, whose work exhibits more character and plasticity than perhaps any other Italian that could be named. (p. 265) [more...]
![[picture: A Railway Cutting]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/wm/big/120-a-railway-cutting-q85-303x200.jpg "[picture: A Railway Cutting]")
The engraving shows maybe 20 or more men working on making a railway cutting. In the background men are digging away at the ground; at centre, they lod the dirt onto a railway truck (US: a railroad waggon); a horse waits nearby to drag the full cart away. In the foreground is a man presumably raking the gravel between the rails, and another just [...] [more...]
[$]Images from The Magazine of Art. Illustrated (c. 1878), published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris and New York.
This was a monthly periodical, or magazine, that ran from 1878 to 1948; later volumes included colour plates. The volume that i have is listed as Volume 3 (Volume III) at archive.org.
I have marked these images as being in the public domain, but I am actually not certain if this is correct in all cases. You have been warned!
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